Foreword by the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cleveland State Universit

Zhu, Jianping

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Foreword 
Jianping Zhu 
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cleveland State University 
When Dr. Huiwen Li and Professor Xiongyi Liu asked that I write a foreword to the first issue of 
the journal Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology (CLTMT), I was very 
honored and delighted to play a role in the inaugural issue of this peer-reviewed, bilingual, 
international journal that will bring high quality empirical research at no cost to researchers, 
current and future practitioners, as well as students interested in Chinese language worldwide.   
As excited as we are with CLTMT’s inception, it should come as no surprise to anyone who is 
familiar with Cleveland State University’s (CSU) mission to encourage excellence, diversity and 
engaged learning in providing quality accessible education and conducting scholarly research. 
Since 2008, CSU has been a proud host of a Confucius Institute as a collaborative project with 
the Capital University in Economics and Business in China and consistently supported its year-
round Chinese language education and cultural enrichment programs and activities, which are 
fully accessible to the local communities and the general public. The creation of the CLTMT is 
also in keeping with CSU’s position as a leader in Chinese language education. Besides regular 
offering of Chinese language courses, CSU also has a successful Master’s program in Foreign 
Language Education – Chinese with a teaching licensure option, as well as a new doctoral 
program in Chinese Language Teaching that will welcome its first cohort in Fall 2018.  
From the perspective of higher education, the creation of CLTMT is one more step in our global 
education journey committed to connecting classrooms worldwide while supporting cultural 
awareness and recognition of diversity and ensuring equal access to educational resources. As 
the former Dean of Graduate Studies and current Provost and Senior Vice President for 
Academic Affairs of CSU, I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in 
collaborative endeavors of CSU and its Confucius Institute to build connections and partnerships 
with an increasing number of universities in China, which include a student exchange program 
with Jilin University, an L.L.M. exchange program with Southwest University of Political 
Science and Law in Chongqing, the afore-mentioned Chinese Language Teaching doctoral 
program with Capital Normal University in Beijing, and a student culture exploration program 
with Chinese University of Petroleum (East China). In addition, a CSU-affiliated K-12 school, 
the Campus International School, has made the learning of foreign language one of its 
trademarks as an International Baccalaureate® (IB) school. The support from the CSU Confucius 
Institute has enabled this school to be one of the front runners among northeastern Ohio public 
schools in preparing post-millennials for living and working in a rapidly globalizing world.  
The CLTMT owes its creation and existence to the hard work of Dr. Huiwen Li, Professor 
Xiongyi Liu, as well as the current Director of CSU-Confucius Institute, Professor Yan Xu. 
Together they have brought to life the vision of providing global access to empirically supported 
best practices, often with the facilitation of innovative cutting-edge technology, in Chinese 
language teaching and learning. It was through their hard work and commitment that CLTMT has 
taken shape and become a reality. I am grateful to them for devoting many extra hours beyond 
their regular responsibilities to creating, staffing, and managing this journal. I would also like to 
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thank CSU library staff, especially project coordinator Barbara Loomis and digital initiatives 
librarian Marsha Miles, and our library director Glenda Thornton for her leadership. Their 
support is crucial for CLTMT to come into existence. It was through their coordination that the 
editors were able to build CLTMT from the ground up on a cutting-edge web-based publishing 
platform and receive the necessary training from the publisher to familiarize themselves with the 
online submission, reviewing, and publishing process. The web-based platform allows CLTMT to 
be accessible anytime, anywhere. In a digital age, such an omnipresent format will greatly 
enhance the readership and impact of this journal in the long term. I am indebted to each of them 
for their contribution on behalf of the university.  
The first issue of CLTMT includes a selection of research articles on topics ranging from the 
instructional model of organic world language, the application of Twitter in Chinese language 
learning, problems and coping measures among beginning learners of Chinese calligraphy, to 
cultural shocks experienced by Chinese language teachers in American classrooms. These 
empirical studies utilize vigorous quantitative or qualitative research approaches and the 
authorship represents researchers from U.S. and Chinese universities as well as classroom 
teachers at various grade levels. I would like to thank the authors for submitting their 
manuscripts to CLTMT and for their timely responses to the comments and suggestions made by 
the reviewers. I also would like to thank all reviewers for their time and efforts to ensure the 
quality of papers accepted for publication in CLTMT. The findings reported in these papers are 
not only interesting but also directly applicable to Chinese language education.  
I am very pleased with the high quality of the research presented in the inaugural issue of 
CLTMT and I wish CLTMT continued success in the future. 
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