Osaka Gakuin University is excited to once again partner with the Center for International Foreign Language Teacher Education (CIFLTE) at Teachers College, Columbia University to host the TCSOL/TESOL Dual Certificate Summer Program!

The program kicked off with an intensive week of TCSOL (Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages) classes, led by Dr. Liu from Columbia's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

From July 14 to 18, participants took a deep dive into Chinese Educational Linguistics, exploring both foundational theories as well as the latest research shaping the future of Chinese language instruction.
Among the many topics covered, here are just a couple highlights from the first week:

• Phonology in Chinese
• Discourse grammar in Chinese
• Chinese Morphology

Here's what some of this week's participants had to say about Dr. Liu's course:
"Dr. Liu is very charismatic! He will cite sources or recommend students further reading materials to encourage us to take time outside of the classroom to read further into the topics we're interested in. Despite the class (mainly) being lectures, you still feel like it's a conversation (with the professor)."

"The class is full of teachers and linguistically attuned students who have the same shared interests and passion, and we have been applying it in different environments...so it's pretty awesome!"