(The following is reposted from the Hobart and William Smith Colleges website.)
Unscrambling Mandarin Chinese sentences into correct ones is not necessarily an early afternoon brainteaser many students would call a good time. But the eight HWS students working in pairs in teaching Associate Yi-Tung Wu’s Beginning Chinese 101 language lab this semester, were fully engaged in the exercise, and enjoying the challenge.
Not surprising.
Their Taiwanese teaching associate — who like her predecessor last year is at the Colleges because of an award from the Alliance for Language Learning and Educational Exchange (ALLEX) — not only loves her native language, but wants the students she works with to love it as well. continue reading
