Presenter Bio: Shuhan Wang, PhD, is President of ELE Consulting International, LLC; Director of the Chinese Early Language and Immersion Network (CELIN); and Senior Advisor for Chinese Language Education at Asia Society. She serves on the Board of Advisors for the Global Seal of Biliteracy. She is the former Deputy Director of the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland, Co-Principal Investigator for the STARTALK project, Executive Director of Chinese Language Initiatives at Asia Society, and Education Associate for World Languages and International Education at the Delaware Department of Education. As an advisor to the Singapore Ministry of Education from 2012 to 2024, she provided consultation on the design and creation of primary and secondary Chinese as Mother Tongue curricula and textbooks and professional development for staff and teachers. Dr. Wang has taught in and worked with PreK-12 and international schools, university Chinese language programs, Chinese heritage language schools, and teacher training programs in the United States and abroad. She is the lead author of several textbook series for PreK-12 Chinese language and immersion programs. She has written and published extensively on language planning and policy, heritage and world language education, teacher education and development, and curriculum and biliteracy development. Dr. Wang received her BA from National Taiwan University, an MA in Communication from Ohio State University, and a second MA in Bilingualism/TESOL from the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

 

Chinese Title of the paper: 面向美国学前至十二年级的中文教育新框架

 

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