| HAA-280982-21 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Allegheny College | An Engaging Digital Curriculum for Intermediate Chinese Language and Culture | 9/1/2021 - 8/31/2022 | $48,355.90 | Xiaoling | | Shi | | | | Allegheny College | Meadville | PA | 16335-3903 | USA | 2021 | Asian Languages | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 48355.9 | 0 | 48355 | 0 | Convening a three-day meeting bringing together Chinese language scholars, instructors, and digital technologists to design a free online curriculum for teaching Chinese language in a cultural context.
Our proposed curriculum intends to advance a pedagogical shift in language teaching by taking up opportunities afforded by Web 2.0 to explore ways to improve communicative competence and develop critical cultural awareness. Three characteristics are: creating an immersive learning environment by pulling in rich resources from the online world; engaging learners by utilizing online engagement tools/platforms and social media; developing critical cultural awareness by taking advantage of the immersion and engagement created. It will serve as a model for curriculum design not only for other less commonly taught languages, but also for language and culture teaching as a whole. A Level 1 grant will enable Allegheny College to convene a conference to collect comments and feedback on experiments and innovations made in classrooms and revise them accordingly. The project will culminate with a white paper and a website delineating if, why, and how the digital curriculum will achieve its goals. |