The Third International Symposium on CSL Teaching and Learning was held on 22 March at Cho Yiu Hall. Themed ‘Theories and Practices in the Training of Pragmatic Abilities’, the symposium was organized by the Yale-China Chinese Language Centre, with support from the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages and the Research Centre for Chinese Linguistics of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature. Over 150 participants, including key players in the field from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the US, and stakeholders such as language teachers and postgraduates, were in attendance.

Dr. Wu Weiping, director, Yale-China Chinese Language Centre, pointed out that the symposium helped to bring CSL researchers and practitioners together for exchanging views and sharing experience. The sysmposium is also one of the CUHK’s 50th anniversary celebratory events.