The 20th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference took place on Saturday 14th October 2023 at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. This year’s conference theme was ‘Developing Through Sharing’.

We have gathered together the workshop presentations so that they can be referred to and used by teachers in future Chinese language teaching and learning. The presentations have been arranged below in order of appearance at the Conference.

Conference Workshops

Opportunities and Challenges: Introduction to the Chinese IB course of International Baccalaureate
Zhaojin Zhou

Motivation to Learn Chinese, strengthen, sustain, repair
Lucy Wicks

The potential use of Graded Readers in our Chinese class
Jia Ding

The way forward? Use translanguaging to teach Chinese and train future
MFL teachers
Jingjing Ruan, Yuqi Tang

What else could we do about vocabulary learning? Ideas and Solutions
Victor Wu

A-level Chinese and the CEFR: a multi-perspective investigation
Ying Zheng, Yu-Hua Chen, Jia Li

Developing Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Mandarin
Lydia Hargreaves-March

Creating China in your hand
Simone Haughey

To what extent can ChatGPT help us to work smart (or not)?
Jenny Chen

Passing on the Baton – Tracing the steps of professional sharing, from generation to generation
Alex Ferraby, Liu Linying, Zak Twist, Gao Xuan

CIM (clarity, inspiration and motivation) – A level teaching and learning
Yan Burch

Speak Away and Create an Immersive Environment!
Elliot Hsiao-Williams

Using Pinyin to support the teaching of Primary Mandarin – A Five
Step Process
Rachel Tiefenbrun and Cara Bleiman

Teaching without Tech
Michelle Tate

Reflective teaching and how to attract more students to learn Mandarin in your school
Yan Hong