SinoNet: FW: WG: Call for papers: Hanzi renzhi - How Western Learners Discover the World

Fre Jan 7 12:33:08 CET 2005

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>Call for Papers
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>International interdisciplinary conference
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>Hanzi renzhi -
>How Western Learners Discover the World of Written Chinese
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>24.-26. August 2005
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>School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies
>Germersheim, Mainz University
>Germany
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>Introduction
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>The Chinese Department at the School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural
>Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz / Germersheim 
>(Fachbereich
>für Angewandte Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften [FASK]) in cooperation with
>the Center for Chinese as a Second Language (Duiwai Hanyu yanjiu zhongxin)
>at Beijing Language University (BLCU) is pleased to announce the
>international conference "Hànzì rènzhi - How Western Learners Discover the
>World of Written Chinese" to be held at the FASK in Germersheim, Germany,
>from 24.- 26. August 2005.
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>Scientific objectives
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>The conference is aimed at gaining relevant insights from the perspectives
>of writing linguistics, intercultural communication, neuropsychology,
>cognition psychology, sinology, text linguistics, sinographemics (Xiandai
>Hanzixue) and FLT (Foreign Language Teaching) in order to contribute to the
>discussion of the impact of different writing systems on language
>consciousness and language learning and possibly facilitate the development
>of access methods to the Chinese writing system for alphabetic readers. As
>not only reading experience, but also the way how the Chinese character
>system is taught will influence motivation and the speed with which certain
>stages of reading ability are reached, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign
>Language (TCFL) to alphabetic readers is the field objected to profit most
>from this conference. Based on the fact that Foreign Language Teaching is
>dominated by phonetically written languages (and not only in the Western
>world), questions like the following will be discussed by the attendants of
>the conference:
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>·	What are the global impacts caused by the seclusiveness and "hermeticity"
>of Hanzi?
>·	Does early Hanzi acquisition stimulate certain brain regions?
>·	Can Western learners ever master a reading speed of Chinese texts
>comparable to that of Chinese readers?
>·	Can we succeed in making the world of written Chinese more accessible for
>Western recipients?
>·	What are the connections and differences between Chinese Language
>acquisition and Chinese character    acquisition?
>·	How many Hanzi do we need to cross the border from deciphering to 
>reading?
>·	What are the advantages and disadvantages of using transcription systems
>(like Hanyu Pinyin) in CFL teaching?
>·	If there were sufficient teaching materials, how would Western learners
>master Hanyu Pinyin texts compared to Hanzi texts?
>·	What is the function of mnemonic helps, linguistic and etymographical
>knowledge to alphabetic readers in reading Chinese texts?
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>Conference Languages are English and Chinese.
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>The presentations will be published as part of the series 
>"Sinolinguistica",
>which is published by the Association for Chinese Language Teaching in
>German Speaking Countries (Fachverband Chinesisch) at Iudicium publishing
>house, Munich.
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>We are planning to start talks with representatives of other European
>Countries focusing on a possible founding of a European Association of
>Teachers of Chinese during the Conference.
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>Information for the authors
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>The Conference will be held at the School for Applied Sciences and Cultural
>Studies (FASK) in Germersheim from 24.-26.08.2005. Interested authors 
>should
>submit an abstract of their paper via email to mpoerner at uni-mainz.de. Note
>that only electronic submissions will be considered. The Submission 
>deadline
>is January 15th, 2005.
>Contributors will be notified by the end of February. Authors of papers
>accepted for presentation will receive reimbursement for their travel
>expenses as per guidelines provided later.
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>Initiator and organizer:
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>Institute for Intercultural Communication
>Prof. Dr. Andreas Guder
>Juniorprofessor at the Dept. of Chinese
>School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies
>Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
>An der Hochschule 2
>76726 Germersheim / Germany
>Tel. +49/7274/50835375
>Fax +49/7274/50835474
>Email	guder at uni-mainz.de
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>Location:
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>The School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Johannes 
>Gutenberg
>University of Mainz in Germersheim (Fachbereich für Angewandte Sprach- und
>Kulturwissenschaften [FASK]) is Europe? s biggest academic institution for
>translation and interpretation studies. 2500 students from more than 70
>countries study in Germersheim, a small town at the famous Rhine river, 100
>km south of Mainz and Frankfurt and 40 km from Heidelberg in the
>vine-growing Southern Palatinate region close to the French border.
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>Partners asked for support or already supporting the conference:
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>Center for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language
>University
>National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, PR China 
>[NOCFL]
>German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG])
>Academia Sinica, Taibei
>Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taibei
>Association for Chinese Language Teaching in German Speaking Countries
>(Fachverband Chinesisch), Germany
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>For further information please refer to
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>http://www.uni-mainz.de/~guder/hanzirenzhi.html
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>Contact
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>mailto:mpoerner at uni-mainz.de
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>Michael Poerner
>Mainz University
>School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies
>Department of Chinese
>An der Hochschule 2
>76726 Germersheim
>Germany
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