Six representatives of the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M attended the Annual Conference for the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas, or CLTA, held in San Antonio.  Dr. Yirong Luo, Ms.. Ying Wang, Dr. Yanfei Wang, Mr. Weidong Shi, Ms. Yuan Liu, and Mrs. Martha Green attended the one-day conference that was sponsored in part by the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M. 
During the Conference Dr. Luo, the Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute at A&M, addressed the attendees as a newly appointed member of the Board of Directors, laying out the various goals and programs planned by the institute for the coming year.  Dr. Luo pledged greater cooperation between CLTA and the Confucius Institute in the promotion of Chinese language and culture teaching in Texas.
In addition, Mr. Weidong Shi, a lecturer at the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M, was a featured speaker on the Media, Minds, and Methods seminar during conference covering the “Teaching the ‘Ba’ Sentence”. 
The Confucius Institute at Texas A&M has fostered a cooperative effort with the CLTA of Texas, a nonpolitical nonprofit educational and professional organization, to promote teaching and learning of the Chinese language in Texas.

Contact:  James M. Mendiola Jr.
Program Coordinator, Institute for Pacific Asia
Texas A&M University
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College Station, TX 77843-3371 | USA
Tel. +1 979.845.3099 | Fax. +1 979.845.6228
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