Vote for Erin: the Global Top 30 in the Chinese Bridge Mandarin Speech Contest
🎉 Congratulations to Erin Masters on being the Global Top 30 in the 2021 Chinese Bridge Mandarin Speech Contest! 🎉 As the top winner of the 2021 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Speech Contest, Erin Masters, a proud UBC alumna who majored in Asia Area Studies, has advanced to the Global Top 30 in the next […]
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Bridging Gaps: Promoting Differentiated Instruction for Both Heritage and Non-Heritage Mandarin Learners in CHIN244/338
Heritage Mandarin learners are frequently faced with particular challenges such as identity confusion, language barriers, doubled sense of cultural alienation, and so on. These difficulties often arise from the ambiguous cultural spaces they are situated in and their shared diasporic experiences. This has precisely been how Selina Guo, a third-year Political Science student, felt when […]
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Caring On: Meet our new and seasoned instructors and learn how they approach student-centered learning
Behind UBC’s Chinese Language Program is a diverse team of passionate instructors who seek to not only broaden the students’ academic horizons, but also enrich their personal lives. This year, we are honoured to introduce to you our seasoned instructor Lu Mingzhu, and our three new visiting lecturers, Peng Yu-chun, Chen Yi, and Lin Shiang-han. Instructor […]
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Individualized Learning within a Supportive Community: Introducing Beginners Heritage Chinese Courses at UBC’s Chinese Language Program
The Chinese Language Program welcomes students to register for Chinese Heritage courses! You can find some inspiring testimonials from your peers in the video below. The diverse student body at the University of British Columbia has a considerably large community of Chinese heritage students. But what really makes a Chinese heritage student? While they might find a […]
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Cross-National Conversations: Enhancing Chinese Heritage Language Learning through International Collaboration
There could be a hundred different classes for a hundred heritage students, because each and every one of these students have specific learning needs and goals. Heritage students are those raised in a Mandarin-speaking environment and are bilingual to some extent. They present unique learning trajectories that do not fit into the traditional streams of […]
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Heritage Incubator: Fostering Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through CHIN243
A heritage Chinese class can mean much more than teaching students linguistic skills, such as how to correctly pronounce words, or how to fluently formulate sentences. By encouraging the students to reflect on their own cultural heritage, CHIN 243: Basic Chinese II: Part 2 (Heritage) motivated them to further explore such significant concepts as equity, […]
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Forming a Global Family with Mandarin: 2021 BC Chinese Bridge Mandarin Speech Contest
Under the theme of “Mandarin as a Bridge, the World as One Family,” the 2021 Chinese Bridge Mandarin Speech Contest successfully took place online on May 4th. This year, the contestants virtually gathered together to think about how the Winter Olympics in the upcoming year will provide a precious opportunity for everyone in the global […]
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Through our eyes, with our voices: How students and faculty are creating space to heal and be proud of their Asian identities (Part I)
By Aydin Quach (he/him/his), third-year Arts student. Aydin is of Chinese-Vietnamese heritage. Throughout my undergraduate degree, my identity has been moulded by the people around me. Language is a constant theme in understanding my identity as well as learning. It was in my Chinese language classes that I truly started to love myself and my […]
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Through our eyes, with our voices: How students and faculty are creating space to heal and be proud of their Asian identities (Part II)
By Aydin Quach (he/him/his), third-year Arts student. Aydin is of Chinese-Vietnamese heritage. Throughout my degree at the UBC Faculty of Arts, I have been fortunate to have learned from a variety of professors from all over the world. They offer a wealth of knowledge and a sense of pride in their heritage that inspires me […]
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A Bittersweet Night: 2021 Year-End Online Appreciation Event
👉 Summer 2021 CLP Volunteer Recruitment: https://chinese.arts.ubc.ca/21440-2/ In the last Chinese Language Program (CLP) event of this school year, volunteers TAWLs, and professors alike gathered to celebrate the fruit of this year’s hard work. For a reminiscent night full of laughter and emotional sharing, there is only one way to describe the Online Appreciation event: […]
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