Tag: Chinese
Save Fulbright-Hays International Research/Training Funds
The draft FY2018 appropriations bill of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-H) would eliminate the Fulbright-Hays program...
Chinese Highlight of Dismal K–12 Enrollment Survey
The recently released National K–12 Foreign...
Hong Kong Asked to Prove Mandarin Instruction Works
Hong Kong’s Audit Commission has asked the Education Bureau to prove the effectiveness of using Standard Mandarin (or Putonghua) as the medium of instruction...
New Chinese-Language Program for Canadian Labor Rights
The Toronto and York Region Labor Council (TYRLC) has released a series of videos aimed to help Chinese workers with limited proficiency with English...
ACTFL Tests for China
Language Testing International’s (LTI’s) Oral Proficient Interview computer system (OPIc), developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), was introduced...
Chinese Language Trouble with the New Zealand Census
Chinese would be the third most common language spoken in New Zealand (NZ) if the NZ Chinese Language Week Trust goes along with its...
Xi Jinping Promotes Chinese Language Learning in London
During his visit to the UK, the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, attended the opening ceremony for the annual conference...
1 Million U.S. Mandarin Speakers by 2020
The 100,000 Strong Foundation, a national non-profit created in 2013 to dramatically increase the number and diversity of U.S. students studying in China and...
Chinese Language Films for a Growing Middle Class
The market potential of China's rising middle class is bringing big attention to the filmmaking world and the demand for quality Chinese language media....
Chinese Enrollments Up 2000% in Texas
According to a recent study by researchers at the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University, Texas has seen a dramatic rise in the number of...
