About Us

The Journal accepts papers with themes covering relevant areas of global Chinese education of theoretical research and experimental study, including language, culture, curriculum, teaching materials, teaching and learning, assessment, teacher development and other areas.

• Policy and Global Development in Chinese Education (e.g., regional and overseas Chinese education; policy, standards, and systems; international promotion and dissemination; programme implementation and governance; disciplinary, institutional, and ecosystem development)
• Technology and Digital Learning (e.g., online, blended, and platform-mediated learning; digital resources and multimodal learning; AI-supported Chinese teaching and learning; learning analytics and data-driven instruction)
• Materials and Resource Development (e.g., textbook design; textbook analysis and evaluation; localised and country-specific materials; text grading and difficulty control; reading resource development; digital and online resource development; corpus and resource bank development)
• Teacher Education and Professional Development (e.g., pre-service teacher education; in-service teacher development and support; teacher cognition and beliefs; teacher identity and professional roles; instructional competence development and reflective practice; digital and AI literacy for teachers)
• Pedagogy and Classroom Practice (e.g., curriculum and instructional design; listening and speaking instruction; literacy, reading, and writing instruction; classroom interaction and task-based activities; culture and intercultural teaching; scaffolding and differentiated instruction)
• Assessment and Educational Evaluation (e.g., language testing and outcome evaluation; classroom assessment and formative feedback; assessment task, tool, and rating design; validity, reliability, and measurement analysis; automated and digital assessment)
• Language Acquisition and Learner Studies (e.g., L2 Chinese acquisition; heritage Chinese acquisition; learning strategies and autonomous learning; motivation and learning engagement; anxiety, affect, and self-efficacy; attitudes, beliefs, and identity; learning outcomes and developmental trajectories; intercultural adaptation and learning experience)
• Linguistics and Language Studies (e.g., phonetics and pronunciation; Chinese characters; lexis and semantics; grammar and syntax; pragmatics, discourse, and text; contrastive and cross-linguistic analysis; error analysis and interlanguage; sociolinguistics and language variation; literacy studies)

Two issues per year, published in June and December.

Chinese or English

Address: B3-1/F-35A, Department of Chinese Language Studies,The Education University of Hong Kong,10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 2948 7825

Fax: (852) 2948 7207

Email: ijcle@eduhk.hk