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 2007 award winners!
At the CLTA 2007 annual conference in San Antonio, TX, Professor Vivian Ling was presented the 2007 CLTA Walton Award for her outstanding lifetime achievement in Chinese teaching. The Awards Committee recognizes Ling as a gifted and extraordinarily dedicated teacher, scholar, and program administrator in the field of Chinese teaching.
Ling started her Chinese teaching career in the early 1970s.
Her teaching skills are recognized as a model to the profession. Ling has been
an important mentor of new generations of Chinese teachers in Chinese programs
in U. S. as well as study-abroad programs in Mainland China and Taiwan.
Additionally, Ling is the author or co- author of more than a dozen Chinese
textbooks, two dictionaries and over thirty articles. She also served as Editor
of the JCLTA for four years and maintained its high standards in scholarship.
The CLTA Walton Award was founded by friends and
colleagues of Ronald A. Walton in 1998, and funded in 2005 by a perpetual
endowment from the Cheng & Tsui Company in honor of his lifetime dedication
to Chinese language education and cross-cultural understanding.
Congratulations to Professor Vivian Ling!
This year, the CLTA Awards Committee selected two co-recipients for the Walton Presentation Prize: Jiajia Wang of the University of Pennsylvania and Chunsheng Yang of the Ohio State University. Jiajia Wang won the prize with her presentation on “Enhancing current CFL teacher preparation through beginning teachers’ perspectives” and Chunsheng Yang’s winning presentation was on “Attitudes and motivations of Chinese heritage learners and non-heritage learners.”
Both presented at the CLTA annual conference in San Antonio, TX. The two winners will each receive a certificate and $300 at the 2008 CLTA conference in Orlando, FL. Additionally, they will also receive an invitation to submit their papers to be considered for publication in the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association.
The Walton Presentation Prize was founded by friends and colleagues of Ronald A. Walton in 1998, and funded in 2005 by a perpetual endowment from the Cheng & Tsui Company in honor of his lifetime dedication to Chinese language education and cross-cultural understanding.
Congratulations to Jiajia Wang and Chunsheng Yang for their outstanding achievements!
Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award
The 2007 Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award was shared by Yongfang Zhang, a Ph.D. student in Chinese at the Ohio State University, and Chunxia Wang, a fresh Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and junior Chinese lecturer at the University of California at Davis. Zhang won the Award for her project on “Written Chinese (shumianyu): A Sequential Approach to Build Learners’ Comprehension,” and Wang received the award for her research on “PowerPoint-facilitated classroom Chinese teaching: Five design principles.” Jill Cheng of the Cheng and Tsui Company was on hand to present the awards to the two winners at the CLTA annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Congratulations to Yongfang Zhang and Chunxia Wang!