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The Asian Studies Graduate Cluster and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
invite you to a lecture by Professor Wayne He
on his innovative approach in the field of Computer assisted language learning (CALL), and its pros and cons for faculty and students alike, in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, computing, and writing.

Dr. Wayne Wenchao HE （何文潮） is Professor of Chinese, Director of the URI Chinese Language Flagship Program and Director of Confucius Institute at URI, Head of the Chinese Section of Department of Languages at the University of Rhode Island. Before he joined URI 2010, he taught most recently at NYU and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

He is the first author of the six-book series, Chinese for Tomorrow, which was published by Cheng & Tsui Company in 2007 and 2008. In more than twenty years, he has presented at various academic conferences and published a dozen books and many more academic papers. His research interest is Chinese pedagogy, technology in teaching Chinese, Chinese grammar.