Xiwen Li (李习文)

I feel that I learn a lot from this program and it is so necessary for me in the period of my teaching career. Dr. Tseng is a perfect professor and I feel so lucky to participate in the UVA STARTALK in this summer vacation.

I want to bring what I have learned from here to my class teaching in the following semester and I want to help new Chinese teachers to adapt to the teaching environment in U.S. in the future. I will do a presentation in WEST VIRGINIA FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER CONFERENCE in this coming October, but I did not have confidence on talking about the topic of assessment based teaching. Right now I feel that I might talk a little bit better on this topic because I have learnt a lot from our UVA STARTALK and understand a lot during this program training.

When I review the video I did with the STARTALK students I realized that how much I have changed in teaching and how much they can speak by the method I am using to teach them. I also learned a lot from other teachers. Everyone is so nice and they help each other to deal with the problems. I look upon this is a perfect chance to learn from Dr. Tseng and all the good Chinese language teachers from all of the United States.