East China Normal University (ECNU), located in China’s biggest city Shanghai, was founded in 1951. Over fifty years of development has shaped it into one of the key institutions of higher learning under the direct auspices of the Chinese Ministry of Education, influential both at home and abroad. The University has 13 full-time schools, namely, the School of Humanities, School of Educational Science, School of Preschool Education and Special Education, School of Foreign Languages, International College of Chinese Studies, Business School, School of Law and Politics, School of Sports and Health, School of Science and Engineering, School of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, School of Life Science, School of Information Science and Technology, and Vocation School.
华东师范大学位于中国最大的城市上海，学校始建于1951 年。经过五十多年的发展，学校已是闻名中外的、教育部直属重点高等院校之一。学校共有13个全日制学院，即：人文学院、教育科学学院、学前教育与特殊教育学院、外语学院、商学院、对外汉语学院、法政学院、体育健康学院、理工学院、资源与环境科学学院、生命科学学院、信息科学与技术学院、职业技术学院等。

These schools consist of 35 departments offering 55 undergraduate programs, 6 of which, i.e. Chinese, History, Mathematics, Education, Geography, Psychology and Teaching Chinese as Foreign Language, are on the list of State Training and Research Bases for Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences. Besides, the University has 4 state key programs, 1 state key laboratory, 2 key laboratory under the Ministry of Education, 1 open laboratory and 5 key research bases for humanities and social sciences approved by the Ministry of Education, and over 40 research institutes and a number of multi-disciplinary research, experiment, computing and testing centers. The Graduate School offers 73 doctoral programs, 118 Master programs and has 10 mobile post-doctoral research stations.
这些学院共有35个系，开设55个本科专业，其中中文、历史、数学、地理、心理和对外汉语6个专业为国家文理科基础学科人才培养和科学研究基地。学校有4个重点学科，1个国家重点实验室、1个教育部开放实验室，5个教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地、40余个研究所和一批跨学科的研究、实验、计算、测试中心。学校设立研究生院，现有73个一级学科博士点、118硕士点和10个博士后流动站。

ECNU is known as a garden university for its beautiful campus covering a total area of about 188 acres. Over 20,000 students including more than 1000 international students are studying here. the University has established relations with nearly 100 foreign institutions of higher learning for academic exchanges.
华东师范大学校园如同美丽的花园，占地188公顷。在校学生近20,000名，包括1,000多名外国留学生。学校与全球近100家大学建有校际合作与学术交流关系。

Almost all of our professors have the State qualification certificates of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. They are well-educated in pedagogy, psychology and teaching methodology. Their teaching is evaluated highly at home and abroad. The Online College of Chinese Language (OCCL) in cooperation with the State Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language is the best web in Chinese teaching and evaluated highly both in and out of China.
几乎所有的教员都有对外汉语教学的国家证书。他们受到良好的教育学、心理学和教学法方面的训练。他们的教学在国内外广泛受到赞誉。与国家对外汉语办公室和办的汉语远程教育学院被认为是汉语教学最好的网络学院，受到国内外同行的高度评价。

The college stresses on training students to be teachers for teaching Chinese as a foreign language. It offers 3 undergraduate programs, 6 MA programs, and 3 doctoral programs. In 2002 web evaluation of universities throughout China, the specialty of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language won the first place in its specialty.
学院着重培养学生成为对外汉语教学的教师。学院有3个本科专业、6个硕士学位点和3个博士学位点。学院的对外汉语专业在2002年全国大学网络评比中名列全国第一。

The college emphasizes the parallel development of teaching and research. We now have many research results in methodology of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, contrastive studies between Chinese and foreign languages, Chinese grammar, Chinese phonetics, Chinese distant education techniques, Chinese textbook editing, and Chinese folklore.
学院强调教学和科研并重。在对外汉语教学法、中外比较语言学、汉语语法、汉语语音、汉语远程教育技术、汉语教材编写、中国民俗学等研究中成果丰硕。

The college is playing an increasingly active role in teaching Chinese as a foreign language both at home and abroad.
学院在国内外的对外汉语教学中正发挥着越来越大的作用。

The program aims at training urgently-needed qualified American teachers of Chinese language and culture.
本项目培养急需的合格的美国中国语言和文化教师。

Credits and Courses
学分和课程

Curriculum Design for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language汉语作为第二语言的课程设计
Course Units: ICU / 2 credits/30 hours 学分：2；课时：40
This course provides an introduction to some typical definitions of curriculum and different schools of curriculum theories. Students will learn the basic principles of curriculum targets, curriculum standards, teaching materials, curriculum types and curriculum evaluation, etc. The course will deal in detail the relations between teaching aim and curriculum evaluation, etc. The course will deal in detail the relations between teaching aim and curriculum design, between teaching program and teaching syllabus, between comprehensive courses and core courses, etc. Based on a systematic analysis of teaching process, students will master concrete methods of curriculum design and curriculum evaluation and meet the changing trends in curriculum reform.
本课程介绍几种典型的课程定义和课程理论流派；全面概述对外汉语课程设计的基本原则和主要内容（课程目标、课程内容—课程标准与教材、课程类型、课程实施和课程评价）；详细论述教学目的与课程设计的关系、教学计划与教学大纲的区别、综合课程与核心课程的关系等等。在系统分析教学过程的基础上，掌握课程设计和课程评价（包括学业评价、测量等）的具体方法，并能适应课程变革的趋势。

CFL Language Acquisition 汉语作为第二语言的习得理论
Course Units: 1CU /2 credits/30 hours学分：2；课时：40
This course provides a basic understanding of second language acquisition, theory and practice in first and second language acquisition, similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition. It explains theories of interlanguage and error analysis, explores the ways and ability of second language acquisition, especially the acquisition of Chinese as a Foreign Language. It will provide a penetrative analysis on inner and outer factors in CFL,, including difference of individuals, environment, and so on.
本课程在明确第二语言习得的定义、了解第一语言的习得理论和过程、第二语言的习得理论和过程的基础上，分析比较二者的共同点和相异性。论述中介语和偏误分析理论、阐述二语习得途径、探讨第二语言能力和汉语作为第二语言的习得过程，对汉语作为二语学习的内外因素—学习者个体差异与二语习得的关系、二语学习环境（课堂教学对二语习得的影响、与二语习得相关的外在因素）等进行深入分析，并在此基础上掌握汉语作为二语习得的基本理论，用以知道教学实践。

Chinese Phonology for Language Teachers汉语语音及其教学
Course Units: 1CU /2 credits/30 hours学分：2；课时：40
This course aims at the students’ standard of understanding and teaching Chinese phonology. It provides a systematic theory of the phonology of Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua), including vowels, consonants, initials, finals, tones, syllabic structures, sandhi, prosodic phonetics. It focuses on the combination of theoretical knowledge with practical ability in phonology and its teaching. It will also apply a comparative method between Chinese and English phonologies to suit the special needs of the U.S. students.
本课程的教学目标是提高学生对汉语音系的认识述评以及汉语语音的教学能力。主要教授汉语普通话（标准语）的音系，包括元音、辅音、声母、韵母、声调、音节结构、音变、节律的语音学（phonetic）和音系学（phonological）知识。在讲授的过程中，注重理论知识与语音实践能力、教学实践能力相结合，并根据教学对象的特点运用汉、英音系对比的方法和对美国学习者主要语音偏误进行分析的方法，突出汉语音系及其教学的特点。

Chinese Characters: Their Structure and Evolution 汉字的结构及其演变
Course Units: 1 CU /3 credits/30 hours 学分：3；课时：40
This course provides an introduction to the origins, evolution and principles of Chinese characters for language teachers. Students will study the protoforms of the frequently-used characters, the graphic-semantic relations, and the process of segmentation into strokes, as well as the basic principles governing the composition of Chinese characters. The focus of the course is on the graphemes, the nucleus of Chinese writing system, and their functions in the composition of characters. This course will assist students to classify characters into hundreds of groups interrelated phonetically or semantically in terms of graphemes, and to develop instructional methods to facilitate the acquisition of Chinese characters.
本课程介绍汉字的起源、演变与汉字构造的基本原则，分析常用汉字的初文及其演变、形义关系、汉字的隶化笔画的过程、汉字结构的根本原理等。课程的重点是分析汉字结构的核心—形位，及其在汉字组织中的意义。课程将帮助学生将汉字分析成几百个以音或义相联系的形位，从而提高汉字辨析和教学能力。

Chinese Grammar and Teaching 汉语语法及其教学
Course Units: 1 CU /3credits/30 hours学分：3；课时：40
This course provides with a basic knowledge of Chinese grammatical structure as required in the “Teaching Syllabus for the Undergraduate Program of Chinese as a Foreign Language” issued by National Office of TCFL of China, which includes: morphemes and their classification, word classes, phrases, sentences (simple, complex and peculiar); sentence groups; aspects of verbs, degrees of comparisons of adjectives, etc. It also provides a comparatively systematic knowledge about Chinese linguistic theory.
通过本课程教学，使学生初步掌握并能熟练运用国家汉办颁布的《高等学校外国留学生汉语言专业教学大纲》中现代汉语语法部分内容，主要有：语素及其分类；词类；短语；句子（单句、复句、特殊句式）；句群及其分类；动词的态；形容词的级等。并使学生具备较为系统完整的汉语言理论知识结构。

A Comparative Study between Chinese and English and Translation 汉英比较与翻译
Course Units: 1CU /3 credits/30 hours学分：3； 课时：40
This course provides a systematic introduction of comparative study between Chinese and English, and the translation from English to Chinese and vice versa. It will help students to understand better the differences between the two languages and to do better translation work.
本课程系统地比较英汉语两种语言的异同，并通过汉译英与英译汉的大量实践，使学生能够读这两种语言的不同特点和规律有比较明确的了解，提高英汉互译和汉语教学的水平。

Chinese Society Today 当代中国社会
Course Units: 1CU /2 credits/30 hours 学分：2；课时：40
This course provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary China’s society in about 15-20 aspects, such as politics, economy, culture, arts, and so on, so that students can understand better the contemporary China.
本课程分十五个方面比较深入地分析了当代中国社会的现状，包括政治、经济、文化、艺术等等，使学生对当代中国有一个比较全面的了解。

Chinese History 中国历史
Course Units: 1CU/3 credits/30 hours 学分：3；课时：40
This course provides a brief account of the long history of China from pre-historic culture, Xia and Shang dynasties, up to Opium War and the founding of People’s Republic of China. It will introduce and comment a series of significant historic events in China’s history and persons who have exerted tremendous impacts in the evolution of China. It will help the students to have a general picture of Chinese history and a comprehensive understanding of the social change of China.
讲授中国的史前文化、从夏商明清、从鸦片战争到新中国成立的悠久历史，介绍与评述中国历史上的重大事件及影响中国历史进程的重要人物，使学生了解中国历史的发展概况，对中国的社会变迁有较全面的认识。

Chinese Literature 中国文学
Course Units: 1CU /3 credits/30 hours 学分：3； 课时：40
This course provides a chronological knowledge of Chinese literature from ancient to modern, especially the contemporary times. The focus of the course is on the important literary schools in history, classical writers and their works. A combined method of lectures, classroom discussions, and movie/video entertainment will help the students to form a general picture of the development of Chinese literature, raise their ability to understand Chinese literary works and makes it part of knowledge as language teachers.
本课程以时代为序，着重介绍中国古代特别现当代文学史上重要的文学流派、经典作家及其主要代表作品。采用课堂讲授、小组讨论和主题发言相结合的方式，并结合相关影视作品，力求使学生了解中国文学发展的基本线索，提高对中国文学作品的阅读理解能力，增强作为汉语教师必备的文学修养。

Chinese Culture 中国文化
Course Units: 1CU /3 credits/30 hours学分：3；课时：40
This course provides a comprehensive picture of Chinese (the Hans in particular) culture based on the modern concepts of cultural anthropology, philosophical anthropology, and folklore. It will be dealt in three aspects: material culture including manufacturing, building, costumes, cuisine, hygiene; institutional culture including ritual and ceremony, family construction, village community, etc.; and spiritual culture including beliefs, religion, Confucianism, other philosophic schools, metropolitan fashions, etc. It will also introduce the communication between Chinese and Western cultures, and look forward to the future of Chinese culture.
本课程将围绕这一宗旨：运用当代文化人类学、哲学人类学和民俗学的学科新理念，以人为本，扼要缕析自古至今，中国人为营生而发的物质文化；与人相处的制度文化；人心慰藉的精神文化。每类文化又将分不同层面加以描述、归纳和解析。如物质文化；拟分稻作等物质生产文化、建筑文化、服饰文化、饮食文化、养生文化；制度文化；拟分人生礼仪文化、家族文化、村落社区文化；精神文化：拟分神仙信仰、宗教文化、儒家文化、诸子思想。都市时尚等。另外，拟就中国文化向外的传播和外来文化在中国的受容、中国文化的未来也作专题的讲授。力求在传统和现代，上层与下层，中国与外国之间勾勒出真实的中国文化图象轨迹。

Chinese Arts 中国艺术
Course Units: 1CU /2 credits/30 hours学分：2；课时：40
This course provides a brief introduction of traditional Chinese arts, their developing process, national features and esthetic aspiration. Its focus will be on the introduction and appreciation of brilliant artists in Chinese history and their representative works. The students will learn of the basic features and achievements of Chinese calligraphy, painting, music, dance, sculpture, gardening, arts and crafts, and fostering an ability to appreciate them.
概括讲授中国传统艺术的发展历程、民族特色和美学追求，介绍与评析中国历史上具有杰出成就的艺术家及其代表作，使学生了解中国书法、绘画、音乐、舞蹈、雕塑、园林建筑、工艺美术等艺术种类的基本特征及其成就，培养学生鉴赏中国艺术的能力。

Field Work: Class Observation and Teaching Practice 课堂观摩和教学实习
Course Units: 1CU / 2 credits/30 hours学分：2；课时：40
This course begins with an overview of the field of CSL teaching material. It covers materials analysis, assessment, adaptation and modification. Readings and class assignments and activities will provide opportunities for students to explore their own teaching plan. The class observations of teaching Chinese as first language in primary and middle school (out-campus) and teaching Chinese as a second language/for foreigners (in-campus) are offered. This course will also provide opportunities for students to practice teaching under the guide of supervisor.
本课程分为两个阶段：第一阶段主要是汉语作为第二语言（CSL）的教材研究与教材教法讨论，主要涉及教材的分析与评估、教材的编写与选用以及教案设计等。第二阶段主要是教学观摩与实习。学生去中小城市学观摩语文课（汉语作为第一语言）教学，在本校旁听对外汉语教学（汉语作为第二语言）的各种课型并进行课堂讨论。在此基础上，结合实践设计出自己的教案，并在教师的指导下进行教学实践。

Adolescent Development青少年发展
Course Units: 1CU/2 credits/30 hours学分：2；课时：40
The course of “Adolescent development” mainly describes characteristics of adolescents’ physical and mental development and related issues for the critical adolescence stage in the process of human growing. The course includes the chief viewpoints and theories on the development of adolescents, the main methods to research adolescents’ psychological development, adolescents’ physical growth and concomitant psychological feeling, the characteristics of adolescents’ cognitive development, intellectual development, emotional development, personality development, social cognition and social development, factors from families, peers, media and schools that affect adolescents’ psychological development, the common psychological and behavior problems usually found in adolescents and some related intervening strategies, and the development characteristics of adolescents in the different background of culture and value (especially in the Chinese culture background ) and etc..
“青少年发展”课程主要介绍与论述人类成长里程中极为重要的青少年阶段的身心发展特点及相关问题。探讨的问题包括：青少年成长与发展的主要理论观点，青少年心理发展的主要研究方法，青少年的生理发育及与此相伴的心理感受，青少年的认知发展、智力发展、情绪发展、个性发展、社会认知和社会性发展的特征，影响青少年心理发展的家庭、同伴、媒体、学校因素，青少年常见的心理与行为问题及其干预对策，以及不同文化与价值观背景（尤其是中国的文化背景）下的青少年发展特点等。

2004-2005 Curriculum and Schedule 2004-2005年度课程安排
First Semester第一学期 Sept –Dec 2004 in ECNU
Chinese phonology and teaching 汉语语音及其教学
Chinese grammar and teaching汉语语法及其教学
Adolescent development青少年发展
Chinese culture中国文化Chinese arts中国艺术

Second Semester: 第二学期 Feb-May 2005 in UPenn
Chinese Society Today 当代中国社会
Chinese Literature中国文学
Chinese characters: their structure and evolution 汉字的结构及演变
Chinese history中国历史

Third Semester:第三学期 June-Aug in UPenn
Comparison between Chinese and English and translation 英汉比较与翻译
Curriculum design for teaching Chinese as a foreign language 汉语作为第二语言的课程设计
CFL Language Acquisition 汉语作为第二语言的习得理论

Fourth Semester第四学期 Sept-Dec in ECNU
First period: Sept-Nov in either ECNU or Upenn
Thesis writing论文写作
Second period: Dec in ECNU
Field Work: Class Observation and Teaching Practice 课堂观摩和教学实习
Thesis defense.论文答辩
Graduation ceremony毕业典礼

The professors

Prof. Pan Wenguo 潘文国教授
The tenure professor of East China Normal University and the executive dean of International College for Chinese Studies and director of the Institute of Applied Linguistics. Deputy Chairman of China Association of Comparative Study between English and Chinese and head of the Contrastive Linguistics Branch. Mentor of doctorate students for the theoretical linguistics and Chinese linguistics. He is an expert of theoretical linguistics, contrastive linguistics, translation theory and practice, ancient Chinese and modern Chinese.
Work and study abroad:
华东师范大学终身教授，对外汉语学院常务副院长，应用语言学研究所所长，中国英汉语比较研究会副会长兼对比语言学学科组组长，理论语言学、汉语语言学博士生导师。研究专长：理论语言学、对比语言学、翻译理论与实践、古代汉语、现代汉语等。
Work and study experience abroad 国外学习、工作经历:
1988-1991, visiting scholar at Leeds University of Great Britain.
1988-1991英国利兹大学访问学者
1999-2000, advisor of Chinese language teaching in the education department of Victoria in Australia.
1999-2000，澳大利亚维多利亚州教育部汉语顾问
Jan. – June. 2001, a visiting professor at the Center for Translation and Cross-cultural Studies, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) of Great Britain.
2001年1月至6月英国曼彻斯特理工大学
Publications: 6 monographs, 4 translated books, editor of 10 books, over 160 academic papers.
出版专著六部，译著4部，编著10部，发表论文160余篇。
Convener of the Journal of Macrolinguistics published in Britain.
曾任英国《宏观语言学》杂志常务副主编。
Personal page个人网页:
http://hanyu.ecnu.edu.cn/dwhy/wz_panwenguo.htm

Prof. Chen Qinjian 陈勤建教授
Chair of the Department of International College for Chinese of the International College for Chinese Studies at ECNU, mentor of doctorate students of literature and arts. Deputy chairman of China Folklore Association. He is an expert of folk literature and arts, literary and artistic theory, cultural anthropology. 华东师范大学对外汉语学院对外汉语系主任，文艺学专业博士生导师，中国民俗学会副理事长。研究专长：文艺民俗学、文艺理论、文化人类学。
Work and study experience abroad 国外学习、工作经历:
He has been in Japan, Russia and Australia as a visiting professor for cooperative study and lectures. 曾应邀赴日本、俄罗斯、澳大利亚等国讲学和从事合作研究。
Publications: 5 monographs, editor of 3 books, about 100 theses. Once the editor-in-chief of Chinese Folklore Magazine, deputy editor-in-chief of Chinese Folk Culture.
出版专著5部、编著3部。发表论文近100篇。曾任《采风》杂志主编、《中国民间文化》杂志副主编。
Personal page个人网页:
http://hanyu.ecnu.cn/dwhy/sz_chenqinjian.htm

Dr. Fu Huisheng 傅惠生教授
Deputy chair of the Department of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at the International College of Chinese Studies, professor of both English and Chinese, mentor of doctorate students of translatology and comparative study between Chinese and Western cultures. Standing councilor of China Association of Comparative Study between Chinese and English and councilor of Shanghai Association of Comparative Literature. Research orientations: translatology, classical Chinese literature, comparative study between Chinese and Western cultures.
对外汉语学院对外汉语系副主任，中英文教授，翻译学和中西文化比较方向博士生导师。中国英汉语比较研究会常务理事，上海比较文学学会理事。研究方向：翻译学、古代文学、中西文化比较。
Work and study experience abroad 国外学习、工作经历:
April, 1999-April, 2000, visiting scholar at University of Victoria, Canada.
1999年4月至2000年4月加拿大维多利亚大学访问学者。
Publications: 1 book, translations 6 books, 10 theses.
出版：著作：1部，译著：6部，论文10篇。
Personal page个人网页：
http://hanyu.ecnu.edu.cn/dwhy/sz_fuhuisheng.htm

Prof. Wang Jue 王珏教授
Chair of the Department of Chinese language at the International College for Chinese Studies of ECNU, supervisor of graduate students. Expert in modern Chinese grammar, linguistic theory, teaching Chinese as a foreign language.
对外汉语学院汉语言系主任，硕士生导师。研究专长：现代汉语语法、语言学理论、对外汉语教学。
Work and study experience abroad 国外学习、工作经历:
1997-1998 teaching Chinese at ISUGA in France.
1997-1998在法国ISUGA任教。
Publications: 2 monographs, editor of 6 books, over 70 theses.
有专著2种、编著6种，发表论文70余篇。
Personal page个人网页:
http://hanyu.ecnu.edu.cn/hyy/sz_wangjue.htm

Mr.Wu Yongyi (Associate professor) 吴勇毅副教授
Deputy dean of the International College for Chinese Studies, deputy dean of Institute of Applied Linguistics, supervisor of MA candidates. Expert in linguistics theory, applied linguistics, theory and methodology of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, modern Chinese.
对外汉语学院副院长，应用语言研究所副所长，硕士生导师。研究专长：语言学理论、应用语言学、对外汉语教学理论与教学法、现代汉语。
Work and study experience abroad 国外学习、工作经历:
1987-1988 study at Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce.
1987年至1988年赞比亚艾弗林·霍恩应用艺术与商业学院进修生
1998-2000 a senior visiting scholar at Institut National des Langues et Civilisation Orientales France.
1998年至2000年法国国立东方语言文化学院高级访问学者
1989-1990 invited to La Trobe University of Australia to help the establishment of Chinese discipline
and a teacher there.
1989年至1990年应邀赴澳大利亚La Trobe大学帮助创建汉语专业并执教
1994-1996 teaching Chinese at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales of France.
1994年至1996年赴法国国立东方语言文化学院执教
1995-1996 first teacher of Chinese language at Universite d’Artois of France and helped the university
to offer Chinese classes for the first time.
1995年至1996年法国阿尔杜瓦大学首任汉语教师，帮助该校第一次开设了汉语专业课。
1999-2000 the first teacher of Chinese language in the Department of Language and International Relations of Ecole des Dirigeants et Createurs d’entreprise, helped the college to offer Chinese classes for the first time.
1999年至2000年，法国高等商学院“企业领导与缔造者学院”语言与国际关系系首任汉语教师，帮助该校首次开设汉语课。
Publications: over 50 theses 发表论文50余篇.
Personal page个人网页:
http://hanyu.ecnu.edu.cn/hyy/sz_wuyongyi.htm

Prof. Xu Ziliang 徐子亮教授
Professor in the Department of Chinese Language at the International College of Chinese Studies, supervisor of MA candidates. Expert at cognitive theory, methodology of teaching Chinese as a foreign language.
对外汉语学院教授，硕士生导师。研究专长：认知理论、对外汉语教学法。
Work and study experience abroad 国外学习、工作经历:
She was many times sent to teach in the United States and Singapore by the State Chinese Teaching Office.
多次受国家汉办委派赴美国、新加坡等地讲学。
Publications: 1 book, 2 text books, co-writer for seven text books, dictionaries, over 40 theses.
专著：1部，教材2种，参编著作、教材、工具书等7种，发表论文40余篇。
Personal page个人网页:
http://hanyu.ecnu.edu.cn/hyy/sz_xuziliang.htm

Dr. Ye Jun 叶军博士
Associate professor of the International College for Chinese Studies, state-level tester of Standard Spoken Chinese, supervisor of graduate students. Research orientations: Chinese phonology, grammar, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, standard spoken Chinese testing.
华东师范大学对外汉语学院副教授，国家级普通话测试员，硕士生导师。研究专长：汉语语音学、语法学、对外汉语教学和普通话测试。
Publications: 1 book, co-writer for 2 books, over 20 theses.
出版专著1部、合著2部、发表论文20余篇。
Personal page个人网页:
http://hanyu.ecnu.edu.cn/dwhy/sz_yejun.htm

Dr. Zhang Deshao （张德劭博士）
Associate professor of the International College for Chinese Studies. Research orientations: ancient Chinese, Chinese grammar, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, comparative study between Chinese and English and translation. 华东师范大学对外汉语学院副教授。研究专长：古代汉语、汉语文字学、对外汉语教学、汉英对比与翻译。
Publications: co-writer for 3 books, 7 theses. 参著著作3种，发表论文7篇。
Personal page: 个人网页：
http://hanyu.ecnu.edu.cn/dwhy/sz_zhangdeshao.htm

Dr. Sang Biao
Professor and deputy chair of the Department of Psychology at ECNU. He is a commissary of developmental psychology commission of China Psychology Association. One of the Shanghai Seventh Dawn scholars.
华东师范大学心理学系教授、博士生导师，系副主任，中国心理学会发展心理专业委员会委员，上海市第七届曙光学者。
Many publications and host of several research projects.
出版著作若干并主持多项研究项目。

Living Expense for 8 months in China for Pennsylvania graduates:
宾大研究生在中国8个月生活费：
Food and lodge（伙食和住宿）:
1) lodge: a) one room with two beds and toilet, 8 dollars/per bed/per day * 240 days = 1920 dollars.
住宿 单间两张床带卫生间 8美元/每床/每天*240天=1920美元
b) one room with two beds, 4 dollars/per bed/per day * 240 days = 960 dollars.
单间两张床 4美元/每床/每天/*240天=960美元
2) meals 5 dollars/per day/per capita * 240 days = 1200 dollars.
伙食 5美元/每天/每人*240天=1200美元
3) activities: visits to different places in the city, once in two weeks,
活动： 参观城市不同的地方，两周一次。
15 dollars/per capita/each time * 16 times = 240 dollars for each person.
15美元/每人/每次*16次=240美元/每人
4) makeup classes for Chinese language: any student who needs to study Chinese language, tuition fee
80 dollars each week (textbooks not included). This fee is not included in the tuition fees
for courses.
中文补课：任何学生需要补习中文，学费每周80美元（不包括课本费用）。这一费用不包含在课程学费中。
5）Insurance: students are advised to buy their insurance in the United States for convenience’s sake.
保险：建议在美国购买。