A volume in the Chinese American Educational Research
and Development Association Book Series
Series Editor Jinfa Cai, University of Delaware
The book is linked to the annual theme of the 2008 CAERDA International Conference with contributing
authors serving as keynote speakers, invited panelists, paper presenters, as well as specialists and
educators in the field. The book provides a most comprehensive description of and a theoretically wellinformed
and a scholarly cogent account of teaching and learning Chinese in general and in the United
States in particular. It examines a wide range of important issues in Chinese teaching and learning: current state in teaching Chinese as a Second
Language (TCSL) in the United States, US national standards for learning foreign languages K-12, policy making about how to meet the growing
demand for Chinese language and cultural education with regard to a national coordination of efforts, professional teacher training in terms of the
quantity and quality of Chinese language teachers at all levels, promotion of early language learning, characteristics of Chinese pedagogy, aspects of
Chinese linguistics, methods and methodology in teaching TCSL, techniques and technology in Chinese language education, curriculum and
instruction in TCSL, cultural aspects of teaching Chinese as a Second Language, issues in Chinese pedagogy, development of Chinese as a Heritage
Language (HL) and the issue of cultural identity for bilingual/multilingual learners (particularly bilingual/multilingual children), testing and
evaluation in TCSL, Chinese literacy and reading, approaches to instruction and program design, etc.