Keynote by Erwin Tschirner: Pathway to Proficiency

ITT’s President Prof. Dr. Erwin Tschirner will give the keynote address at the New England Chinese Teachers Conference in Boston with the topic “The Path to Competence: Understanding and Promoting Language Development for Communication”.

In his presentation, he will focus on links between vocabulary size and receptive and productive levels of proficiency as well as links between hours of instruction and proficiency levels; the kinds of things students need to know about language proficiency to be able to engage in purposeful learning activities appropriate for their specific levels; the things instructors need to know to plan and manage their students’ learning; and the kinds of teaching interventions that may be most beneficial at various proficiency levels.

For more information, please visit: https://www.neclta.org/11th-annual-conference-neclta-guest-speaker