CLTA Newsletter September 2022
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number of higher educational institutions.<br />
What is striking to me is that in reviewing <strong>CLTA</strong> conference programs from<br />
over the last 35 years, dating back to 1997 (the earliest for which records are<br />
available at the <strong>CLTA</strong> website), there has been a clear quantitative decline in the<br />
nonnative “presence” among the paper presenters, panelists, and discussants. The<br />
advantage of having attended the conference since 1986 (!) is that the names are<br />
very familiar to me, and I know who among them are the nonnative speakers with<br />
some degree of confidence.<br />
Conference year Total presenters/ Nonna5ve Chinese Percentage of<br />
panelists/discussants presenters nonna5ve Chinese<br />
1997 127 15 11.8%<br />
2002 92 10 10.7%<br />
2012 223 10 4.5%<br />
<strong>2022</strong> 348 13 3.7%<br />
(retrieved from https://www.clta-us.org/meeting/program-archives/)<br />
As we anticipate the next report by the Modern Language Association (MLA)<br />
on Enrollments in Languages<br />
Other Than English in United<br />
States Institutions of Higher<br />
Education, the data for which<br />
began being compiled in the<br />
autumn of 2021 and the report<br />
for which will be published in<br />
the spring of 2023, we might<br />
want to be mindful of how<br />
enrollment in Chinese<br />
language courses at colleges<br />
and universities declined by<br />
<strong>September</strong>. <strong>2022</strong>. 18
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