The 22nd Annual Chinese Teaching Conference took place on Saturday 11th October 2025 at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London.

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

Generative AI in the Chinese Classroom by Jane Woo

Teaching Mandarin with Technology Lessons Learned by Andrew Zhang

How to boost students’ motivation in Chinese character writing by Yuqing Hu

Belonging in the Chinese classroom by Lucy Wicks

Making best use of foreign language assistants and TAs by Phil Mahoney

My evolving use of games in the Chinese literacy classroom – from content to concept based literacy tool by Rachel Tiefenbrun

Artificial Intelligence _ Real improvements by Alex Ferraby

Visual Thinking in Mandarin Classrooms- Using Graphic Organisers to Boost Speaking and Creative Writing by Jing Wang

Leveraging AI for Mandarin engagement beyond the classroom by Fang Wang

From First Contact to Lifelong Connections by Shanshan Nai

Workshop-behaviour management by Stella Wu

Feedback Practices for the Teaching and Learning of Chinese by Declan Arden