Kun Shan Carolyn Lee

Is Philosophy Too Hard for L2 Learners? Reimagining Speaking Instruction through Chinese Classics - Annual Conference · September 2025 Other Chinese Language Teacher Association of North Carolina , Duke University

Constructing a Chinese for Specific Purposes Curriculum through CLAC and Community-Engaged Learning · July 2025 - July 2025 Invited Talk International College of Sustainability Innovations，National Taipei University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Constructing a Chinese for Specific Purposes Curriculum through CLAC and Community-Engaged Learning · June 2025 - June 2025 Invited Talk Department of Applied Chinese Language and Literature, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Cultivating a Holistic CSL/CFL Curriculum through Community-Engaged Learning - 2023 Harvard University 6th International Conference on Chinese Pedagogy · October 2023 - October 2023 Invited Talk Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

As purpose-driven and meaning-seeking beings, many adult learners of a second or foreign language find their learning experience significantly enriched through community-engaged learning as it connects the learners to the people and environment where the target language is used as a medium of communication and problem-solving. This presenter will discuss three different types of community-engaged projects tailored to different language levels and learning needs in a Chinese language program in an American university. Each description includes the steps involved developing the projects, curriculum goals, service-learning or community-engaged assignments, reflection activities, student learning outcomes, assessments, and pedagogical challenges. Strategies for teachers to adapt to the new norm during and after the pandemic will be discussed as well.

Designing a Cross-Cultural Communication Course/Syllabus · June 2023 - June 2023 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium NTHU Chinese Language Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Integrating Community-based Learning into CSL/CFL Curriculum (将中文课程与社区合作相结合) - Bring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Chinese Language Classroom Workshop. (Present remotely). Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University. · December 2021 Invited Talk December 10th, 2021. , Yale University (online)

Placement Procedures in and Challenges for the Bilingual Curricular Track in the Duke Chinese Program. (Present remotely) - Chinese Language Pedagogy · November 2021 Invited Talk Chinese program, the department of East Asian languages and Literature, , Yale University (online)

Chinese Heritage Curriculum at Duke - Panel Title: Teaching Arabic, Chinese, and Korean to Heritage Speakers · June 2021 - June 2021 Other National Heritage Language Research Center (NHLRC), UCLA, Thirteenth Heritage Language Virtual Research Institute

Based on research on Chinese heritage language learners and developments in teaching Chinese as a second language in the U.S., this presentation introduces the placement mechanisms, challenges, teaching materials, and curriculum design of the heritage-track program in Duke’s Chinese language curriculum.

Lecture (18 hours) on Second and Foreign Language Teaching Methods at the 2013 Startalk North Carolina State University Chinese Teacher Training Program · January 1, 2013 Lecture Raleigh, NC