The 11th International School Chinese Language Education Conference and Workshop jointly organised by the City University of Macau and KAO YIP Middle School, officially commenced on November 23, 2024, at the Cultural Center of the University's Taipa Campus. Under the theme of ‘The Future of Language Education: Chinese as a Global Language’, the conference provided a platform for more than 200 Chinese language educators from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas to share their valuable experiences and fruitful achievements, and to explore new developments in Chinese language education.

The School of Education has been actively involved in the preparation of this three-day conference, which will be followed by activities at the KAO YIP Middle School. Through keynote speeches, workshops, classroom observation and paper presentations, the conference will explore the development and future of Chinese language teaching in the context of internationalized education. The symposium is committed to building an open and shared academic platform to provide opportunities for academic exchanges for Chinese language teachers, to promote the exchange and collision of related research results, and to build a bridge for communication between the theory and practice of Chinese language education, to jointly promote the vigorous development of Chinese language education.

Dr Ieong Weng Hong, a renowned education scholar and writer who graduated from the School of Education of the City University of Macau, was invited to deliver a keynote speech entitled ‘Children's Literature Reading and the Psychological Construction of Children's Self-identity - Taking Parent-Child Reading as an Example’ at the symposium. Her speech attracted a lot of attention and discussion among the participants.

During the symposium, Assistant Professor Huang Biyun and Assistant Professor Zhang Jiawei from the School of Education, as well as Master of Education students Xie Yuwen, Song Changlin, Jiao Yifan, Choi Iek Chong, Huang Ziyun, Xie Shiyi, and Zheng Kunhan, and Master of Teaching and Learning students Pi Bing, Tan Jiayuan, Ieong Wai Iok, Yu Junzhu, Zhou Liuyixuan, and Wu Mengwei, were invited to share their research papers in the symposium, which showcased their research findings in the field of Chinese language education. They were invited to share their research results in the symposium, demonstrating their research results in the field of Chinese language education.