Event: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language Symposium (2021)
Date: 01/16/2021
Description: On January 16, 2021, AIT kicked off the first activity of the new U.S.-Taiwan Education Initiative: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language Symposium in collaboration with the Foundation for Scholarly Exchange. The symposium was attended by 200 Taiwan Chinese language teachers, 60 of whom are Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) that were going to the United States in the summer of 2021. AIT Director Christensen delivered the opening remarks, along with Taiwan NSC Deputy Secretary General Szu-Chien Hsu, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, Deputy Minister of Education Mon-Chi Lio, and OCAC Minister Chen-Yuan Tung.