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Dr. Tseng is an expert in second language acquisition and teacher education for teaching Chinese as a foreign language. She serves as the coordinator of the Chinese Outreach Program and director of the STARTALK Teacher Program at the University of Virginia. She also serves as a member on the AP Higher Education Advisory Committee formed by College Board, a College Board consultant in AP Chinese, an OPI certified tester in Mandarin Chinese, and a K-12 Chinese language program evaluator and foreign language program reviewer for ACTFL/NCATE. Her most recent involvement in the development of AP Chinese includes serving as a curriculum advisor for the Course Audit and as a member of the Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee. She has frequently given talks and taught in many workshops, seminars, and summer institutes in AP Chinese and Chinese language pedagogy in the US, China, and Taiwan. Numerous K-12 and heritage school teachers have benefited from her professional experience and have obtained TCFL certificates or graduate-level credits granted by different universities around the US. She has actively promoted Chinese language and culture in the nation and is the founder and president of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Virginia. Her Intermediate Chinese was recognized as one of the top ten undergraduate Chinese language courses in a nationwide study of Chinese courses completed by the Educational Policy Improvement Center in Oregon. She also received the Ron Walton Presentation Prize in 1998 and the Jiede Empirical Research grant in 2005 awarded by the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) and is also the author of two books: AP Chinese Language and Culture Teacher’s Guide, and Promoting Professionalism in Teaching AP Chinese (推動專業化的AP中文教學). Dr. Ran Zhao (赵冉): Co-trainer and Technology Specialist
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q | Last updated on July 13, 2009. Please contact Ran Zhao at rz4e@virginia.edu for questions. |