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Cheng & Tsui is proud to support and perpetually endow the CLTA Walton Award, Walton Presentation Prize, and the Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Awards. Congratulations to all the 2009 award winners!
Dr. Timothy Light, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
Professor Timothy Light was a key player in establishing and developing a highly professional system of Chinese language instruction in America and beyond from the 1970s to the 1990s. His pioneering and widely influential works include introducing modern language pedagogy to the field of Chinese language instruction, training a group of prominent Chinese language teachers and scholars as well as a crop of top-notch leaders in the Chinese teaching field, publishing numerous books and articles on Chinese pedagogy and Chinese linguistics, serving as the editor of the CLTA Journal and as the president and board member of CLTA, and building close ties between Chinese language educators in the USA and China. In addition, Light personifies himself as a renaissance man by making many scholarly contributions in the areas of Chinese history and philosophy, religion, English as a second language, and language education in general.
CLTA Walton Presentation Prize
Yi-Tzu Huang, University of Iowa
Ms. Huang was awarded the Walton Presentation Prize for her presentation on Chinese heritage learners' interactive patterns in collaborative discussion.
Professional Development Award
Yan Wang, Fayette County Public Schools, Lexington, KY
Ms. Wang used her award to support her attendance at the 2009 ACTFL Conference and World Language Expo in San Diego, where she presented a paper on a standards-based, proficiency-focused K-3 Chinese Curriculum
Caryn Rossi Louie, North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
Ms. Louie used her award to support her attendance at the 2009 National Chinese Language Conference in Chicago, developing knowledge and skills in using interactive videoconferencing to teach chinese across the state of North Carolina.
Chen-hui Tsai, University of Iowa
Ms. Tsai used her award to support her attendance at the 2009 ACTFL Conference and World Languages Expo in San Diego, where she presented a paper titled "CFL Teacher Technology Development: Practice and Challenges".