Since 2006, The Confucius Institute @ China Institute (CI@CI) in partnership with the prestigious East China Normal University (ECNU) has been leading the professional development in teaching Chinese as a second language in the U.S. This spring, three renowned professors from ECNU will visit CI@CI in New York for the first time, to present this symposium, Scholars’ Perspective: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language. All three professors are leading scholars in their respective fields and will be discussing various topics such as, theories and principles of Chinese phonetics and phonology, understanding Chinese characters from multiple perspectives, and contextualizing the use of Chinese languages. Symposium will be given in Mandarin Chinese.

The Rye City School District, located along Long Island Sound just north of New York City, will be looking to hire a NY State certified Mandarin teacher beginning in Sept., 2010.