Sign Your Child Up For The Mandarin Speech Contest
The 37th Mandarin Speech Contest (2012)
Chinese Language Teachers Association of California
第37届中文(普通话／国语)演讲比赛(2012)
Registration Deadline: March 23, 2012
Speech Contest on April 14, 2012
Lowell High School, San Francisco
The 37th CLTAC Mandarin Speech Contest will be held at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Saturday, April 14th, 2012.
The Speech Contest is an annual event hosted by the Chinese Language Teachers Association of California (CLTAC). CLTAC is a non-partisan, non-profit professional organization devoted to Chinese teaching and research, and it aims to promote the teaching of Chinese language and culture at all levels throughout the state of California. The event is now into its 37th year, and attracts more than 600 hundred contestants, with over a thousand teachers and parents participating in recent years. Seen as one of the highlights of the Chinese language teaching calendar, not only has the contest done much to promote the teaching of Chinese language in California, it is also viewed locally as a highly influential event.
The contestants will be grouped into four divisions: college, high school, middle school, and elementary school. Each division contains categories that take into account the language/dialect background of contestants. Contestants will be competing with other contestants of similar linguistic background and learning experience. In this regard, we added additional categories for bilingual and immersion students to the elementary and middle school divisions, along with an AP category in the high school division two years ago. We will continue include those categories in this year’s speech contest.
The contestants should register with their instructors. The registration deadline is March 23, 2012. The registration fee is $10 per contestant. The official rules of speech contest and registration, and the registration form are posted on CLTAC website at http://www.cltac.org/speech-contest.html. The CLTAC encourages all eligible contestants and local Chinese language instructors to take part in this annual event.
For questions on the speech contest, please contact chair of the Organizing Committee, Zhiqiang Li, at zli2@usfca.edu.
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I like reading information about Chinese language teachers association. Are you sure about what you was writing? Best wishes, Jennifer.
Hi Jennifer,
The deadline to apply for the speech contest was March 23 and the contest was held on April 14th. Please check out this link for a list of winners – http://www.cltac.org/uploads/2/5/8/2/258272/speechcontest37_winners_by_school.pdf.
Schools with the largest pool of winners included: CAIS, Chinese Christian Schools, Cornerstone Learning Foundation, Defense Language Institute, Monta Vista High School and Yew Chung International School. Congratulations to all of the participants. And please stay posted as we will let you know when applications are being accepted next year for this event.