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About the Conference
Date: 15 January 2011, Saturday
Venue: T6 Theatre, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
The sharing and variations of Han characters is a unique feature among a number of Asian languages. Korean learns Hanja, Japanese learns Kanji, Chinese in Mainland China and Singapore learns simplified Hanzi while Chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong learns traditional Hanzi. This Conference aims to bring together scholars, researchers and practitioners from different Asian countries to discuss and share their ideas, perspectives, experiences and research findings of teaching and learning of Han characters in terms of curriculum, teaching materials and pedagogy in their own education systems.
Main Areas:
Directions for effective learning of Han Characters in different Asian languages, including
1) curriculum design
2) learning and teaching materials
3) pedagogy and assessment
4) learning strategies of students
5) its relation with the learning of phonetic scripts of the languages
The Conference is co-hosted by:
Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research (CACLER), Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong and
The Korea Society of Education in Chinese Characters and Classics
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