CLTA newsletter Jan. 2020
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<strong>CLTA</strong> NEWSLETTER <strong>Jan</strong>uary <strong>2020</strong><br />
In the summer of 2019 (June 24th to July 12th, 2019), the Chinese program at the<br />
University of Pittsburgh<br />
successfully ran its first<br />
“CoolChinese”<br />
Language & Culture<br />
Summer Camp. The<br />
summer camp, jointly<br />
sponsored by the<br />
Department of East<br />
Asian Languages &<br />
Literatures and the<br />
Confucius Institute at<br />
the University of<br />
Pittsburgh, offered<br />
language and culture<br />
immersion<br />
opportunities to ten<br />
local high school<br />
students with varying socioeconomic and racial/ethnic background. With raving feedback and<br />
requests from students and parents, Pitt Chinese program is planning to host CoolChinese Summer<br />
Camp for a second time, during June 22nd to July 10th, <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
The summer camp aims to help 9th to 11th graders who have little or no prior background of Chinese<br />
to learn about the language and its culture. Students work with an outstanding instructional team of<br />
full-time language instructors, cultural and physical activity leaders, and native speaker language<br />
partners. The camp runs on a<br />
standard-based thematic<br />
curriculum aligned with<br />
American Council on the<br />
Teaching of Foreign<br />
Languages’ World-Readiness<br />
Standards. Students’ language<br />
proficiency is measured with<br />
summative assessment<br />
methods through the<br />
contextual tasks and projects.<br />
At the end of the<br />
CoolChinese Summer Camp<br />
2019, students were not only<br />
able to converse on<br />
predictable topics of daily<br />
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