From: "Michael O'Shea" <osos@citlink.net> 
Subject: finished manuscript 
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:28:20 -0400 
To: <txie@csulb.edu> 
 
 
 


Hello Professor Xie,
 
    I'm a member of CLTA, and, although I don't teach at the college level, I'm also a teacher of Chinese - at the junior high school level.  I find your online course quite useful, especially the inclusion of sound for all the material that you introduce.  With the help of our head tech and a free online editing tool called "Audacity" we've been able to, for example, isolate many of the sounds in your course and use them for listening practice.  Even "zero-level" beginners have benefitted from the course; we can teach them to say simple sentences such as, "I have a younger sister; her name is ______".  Students who have reached a little higher level of oral proficiency can prepare an oral presentation describing their own families by studying (or reviewing) your first two or three units.  Aids such as your online course are a blessing to those of us who want to focus a bit more on the spoken language than is traditionally done with textbooks.  I was also quite impressed and intrigued by the "Penless Chinese" article in the most recent Journal of the CLTA.
 
    To change the topic - I seem to recall that CTLA will review new books in the field if they are submitted to you.  Am I correct?  I just finished a study and translation of one of Lu Xun's works and wonder how I would submit the completed manuscript for review.  I haven't submitted it to anyone else as of now.  Could you possibly point me in the right direction?
 
                                                                                                         Thanks,
                                                                                                         Mike O'Shea