American Councils Home
Teachers of Critical Languages Program: TCLP
 

News and Events

Search Browse

Search

:
Results for ‘Recent News’:
  • Cross cultural exchange: Chinese teacher adapts and thrives in Swain County 01/28/10
    "After making the journey to Western North Carolina from China, Niu Jun discovered Bryson City was nothing like she imagined. Driving through the town of about 1,300, a confused Niu Jun asked, “Bryson City? Where’s the city?”
  • Foreign Languages Fade in Class — Except Chinese 01/28/10
    "WASHINGTON — Thousands of public schools stopped teaching foreign languages in the last decade, according to a government-financed survey — dismal news for a nation that needs more linguists to conduct its global business and diplomacy...The State Department has paid for a smaller program — the Teachers of Critical Languages Program — to bring Chinese teachers to schools here, with each staying for a year."
  • Chinese teachers, program receive positive eval 01/28/10
    The warm welcome Willmar extended to a visiting Chinese teacher Bai Jinguo has been noticed by the Teachers of Critical Languages Program.
  • High schools receive academic awards from KSL Schools 10/26/09
    Provo High School was presented with an award for the way teachers prepare students for the global marketplace with language classes that include Arabic, Russian and Chinese. TCLP teacher Mohamed El Naggar and his mentor teacher Audry Bastian give greetings in Arabic and Chinese in a video clip taken during the award presentation on October 23, 2009.
  • Chinese teachers see US together 10/26/09
    Although both teachers are originally from China, the friendship between Zhang Hong, a TCLP teacher in Muskogee Oklahoma, and Xu Dan, a Chinese teacher with the Confucius Institute at the University of Oklahoma, has flourished in the United States. The Muskogee Phoenix article talks to Zhang and Xu about how they are connecting their students to Chinese culture, and about the ways in which these two teachers have experienced American culture together through their travels in the US.

PROGRAM NEWS

Cross cultural exchange: Chinese teacher adapts and thrives in Swain County

"After making the journey to Western North Carolina from China, Niu Jun discovered Bryson City was nothing like she imagined.
Driving through the town of about 1,300, a confused Niu Jun asked, “Bryson City? Where’s the city?”

Foreign Languages Fade in Class — Except Chinese

"WASHINGTON — Thousands of public schools stopped teaching foreign languages in the last decade, according to a government-financed survey — dismal news for a nation that needs more linguists to conduct its global business and diplomacy...The State Department has paid for a smaller program — the Teachers of Critical Languages Program — to bring Chinese teachers to schools here, with each staying for a year."


© 2007 American Councils, All rights reserved
1776 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-833-7522 Fax: 202-833-7523
Legal Statements
A program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State