TCLT Forum (Mailing List)

(Last updated: 2009-08-20)

1. About the forum

To promote technology-based Chinese language teaching and CALL research in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, the TCLT Committee decided at the 5^th International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21^st Century (held at University of Macau, June 6-8, 2008) to set up a mailing list for Chinese language teachers, students, and TCSL researchers to share new ideas, introduce new software and application techniques, announce relevant publications and conferences, and communicate with each other. The TCLT Committee hopes that the mailing list will enhance communications on technology-based Chinese language teaching by serving as a central distribution point for information and discussion and helping speed up the process in bridging the gap among  technology, research and curriculum and pedagogy.

The list server is located at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Murfreesboro, TN, USA and supported by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at MTSU and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, USA. The list is a moderated list server. Editing is done by Jun Da, Middle Tennessee State University and De Bao Xu, Hamilton College. 

2. How to subscribe and use the mailing list

2.1 To join the mailing list

1. To subscribe to the list, send an empty message to: forum-subscribe@tclt.us.
2. You will receive a follow-up message asking for your confirmation. Please reply to confirmation message by using the 'Reply-to' address contained in the message.
3. After your reply to the confirmation message, you will receive a welcoming message. Please save the welcoming message for future reference.

2.2 To leave the mailing list

1.  To unsubscribe from the list, send an empty message to: forum-unsubscribe@tclt.us.
2. You will receive a follow-up message asking for your confirmation. Please reply to confirmation message by using the 'Reply-to' address contained in the message.
3. After your reply to the confirmation message, you will receive a goodbye message. You may want to save the message for future reference.

2.3 To join in the discussion

After you have subscribed, you can participate in the discussion by sending your messages to: forum@tclt.us. 

Archives of the previous messages will be made available on the web, whose URL will be announced at a later date.

2.4 Alternative means of subscription/unsubscription

If you have trouble sending empty messages to the list server for subscription and/or unsubscription, please visit this page for alternative means of subscribing to/unsubscribing from the mailing list.

3. Posting policy

The mailing list is intended for academic and professional discussions and exchange of information related to technology and Chinese language teaching and learning. Subscription to the mailing list is open and free. Once becoming a member of the mailing list, subscribers will be able to post notes and queries as well as searching previous archive for specific topics. Posting to the mailing list is moderated. Commercial messages or messages unrelated to the theme of the mailing list will be discarded. Announcements of new software, (learning) systems and book reviews are welcome as long as their intended purpose and wording are for the dissemination of information but not the promotion of a certain product or book. 

4. For further help

For help with the operation of the mailing list, send email to: forum-help@tclt.us.

To contact the list managers, please send email to: forum-owner@tclt.us.