Establish or Enhance a Chinese or Japanese language program. The ALLEX Foundation enables universities to begin or maintain a high quality Chinese or Japanese language program by providing them with professionally trained, native Chinese or Japanese instructors.
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Establishing and Enhancing Chinese and Japanese Language Programs
ALLEX enables universities to begin or maintain a high quality Chinese or Japanese language program by providing them with professionally trained, native Chinese or Japanese instructors. Instructors teach one or two courses of elementary Japanese emphasizing all four language skills–speaking, listening, reading and writing–with a curriculum specially designed for native English speakers.
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ALLEX Teachers Participate in Refresher Workshop
On January 22, 2011 ALLEX teachers participated in a full day Refresher Workshop hosted by the SPEAC Program of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University led by Professor Mari Noda, a specialist in East Asian language pedagogy. Professor Noda was joined by a team of four specialists including [...]
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Case Study: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Anne Stengle is the Assistant Director of Grants at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS) in Geneva, New York. In 2006 she set out to find teaching assistants for the Arabic, Russian and Chinese language programs and her first thought was the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program. Then Jonathan Wolff, who was then the Associate Provost, suggested, ‘For Chinese, why not try ALLEX?”