Chinese Teacher Ms. Fang Dong Attended the NAFSA 70th Anniversary Annual Conference
2018年5月26日至6月1日，NAFSA（国际教育者协会）年度会议，暨NAFSA成立70周年庆祝会在坐落于美国宾夕法尼亚州的费城隆重召开。本次年度大会聚集了来自世界各国的国际教育界的教授、教师及管理人员，参会者超过1万人。由于正值NAFSA成立70周年，本次大会特别邀请到了美国前总统小布什的夫人劳拉·布什作为开幕式嘉宾致辞。会议召开期间举办了与国际教育相关的各种论坛、讲座、海报展及国际教育展，参展院校云集了来自美国、中国、英国、德国、丹麦、日本、韩国等国的世界著名高等学府，如美国宾夕法尼亚大学，加利福尼亚大学各个分校、北京大学，日本早稻田大学。参会人员就国际教育发展趋势及相关政策、研究与实践、校园全球化与国际化、海外留学文化适应、国际学生支持服务等各个方面展开了热烈讨论。
作为首次参会人员，我院汉语教师董老师在本次NAFSA大会上参加了论坛与讲座并参观了海报展与国家教育展。董老师与参会人员探讨了外语教学的测评与评估，并和来自美国高中的老师们交流了美国高中的外语教学和相关课外活动以及美国高中的夏令营和海外交换项目，还与美国教职员工讨论了外国人眼中的中华文化，为我院今后的对外汉语教学，国际交流与汉语的国际推广工作学习到了宝贵的教学、研究与实践经验。
May 27 to June 1, 2018, NAFSA (The Association of International Educations) hosted its 2018 Annual Conference and its 70th Anniversary Celebration at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Over 10,000 attendees in the field of International education attended this annual conference. The former First Lady in the U.S., Mrs. Laura Bush gave the keynote speech at the Opening Ceremony. The 2018 NAFSA Annual Conference included forums, workshops, presentation sessions, poster sessions, and the Expo. Many worldwide prestigious higher education institutions from the U.S., China, Britain, Germany, Demark, Japan, South Korea, and other countries attended the Expo, such as University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Peking University, WASEDA University. Attendees discussed hot topics in the trend of international education and related policies, research and practice, globalization and internationalization on campus, cultural adaptation in study abroad, and supports and services to international students.
As a first timer, Chinese teacher Ms. Dong attended forums and presentation sessions, and visited poster presentations and the Expo. Ms. Dong discussed the foreign language assessment and evaluation with attendees, communicated with local American high schools about the foreign language teaching and learning, the Summer Camp and study abroad exchange programs in American high schools, and exchanged ideas about the understanding of Chinese culture from foreigners. All of these activities gained valuable experiences in teaching Chinese to foreign students, international communication and global promotion of Chinese language, which will benefit the work in our college in the future.
