The Chinese Pedagogy Institute opened Sunday. Sponsored by Indiana University in Bloomington and its East Asian Studies Center, the two-week intensive course is all about teaching Mandarin Chinese at the secondary level.
Fifteen prospective and practicing high school teachers of Chinese are enrolled this year. Jennifer Liu, East Asian languages and cultures professor, and Chinese language coordinator at IU, is leading the course.
IU was one of 34 institutions awarded a grant by the National Security Language Initiative's STARTALK, a federal program aimed at increasing the number of Americans learning critical need languages such as Chinese and Arabic.
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