Congratulations to Ikuko Aoyama, 2005 ALLEX Japanese lecturer at Baylor University and current doctoral student at Baylor, for having her research profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education this week. See the full article here.

Four ALLEX instructors presented at the Association for Asian Studies conference last week in Philadelphia. Two gave presentations on pedagogy, one gave a talk on linguistics, and the fourth shared research on study abroad. Congratulations to all!

The following is a press release from Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges issues in 2008.

Unscrambling Mandarin Chinese sentences into correct ones is not necessarily an early afternoon brainteaser many students would call a good time. But the eight HWS students working in pairs in teaching Associate Yi-Tung Wu’s Beginning Chinese 101 language lab this semester, were fully engaged in the exercise, and enjoying the challenge.

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