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Professional Organizations for Chinese Language Teachers

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Educators come together to exchange ideas. Photo: Asia Society.

There are several professional organizations that represent Chinese language teachers at various levels and provide resources for those seeking professional exchange, certification, continuing education, and employment opportunities among other services. The two primary groups are:
  • Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) | link
    A professional organization devoted exclusively to the study of Chinese language, culture and pedagogy, with a membership composed of specialists in Chinese language, literature, linguistics and culture teaching at colleges and universities, as well as teachers of Chinese at primary and secondary schools
  • Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools (CLASS) | link
    A professional organization primarily devoted to providing professional support to primary and secondary education Chinese language teachers
There are a number of smaller groups that might be regionally based, or whose mission extends beyond serving Chinese language teachers:
  • Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning | link
  • Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages | link
  • Association of Chinese Schools (ACS, East Coast schools) | link
  • Chinese Language Teachers Association in Greater New York | link
  • The Chinese School Association in the United States | link
  • National Chinese Association of Chinese Language Schools | link
  • National Office of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language(Hanban) | link
  • Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) | link
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages | link
  • National Foreign Language Center | link
  • National Coalition of Less Commonly Taught Languages | link
  • Title VI International and Area Studies National Resource Centers | link

Anonymous | 08:03:09 09:17pm
This information does help, but why can't we supplement some of the teachers from HanBan with Americans who are fluent in Mandarin? It would seem that some people are trying to help with this, but not my state (IL). As a career-changer myself, the state has no program to offer me certification. Their current program is only for BA candidates! That means 4 more years without Chinese teachers! Hello! There are hundreds of people like me, who've lived in Asia for years and would like to return to American and start teaching Mandarin but can't.

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