Madeline K. Spring (司马德琳)
Madeline K. Spring is the director of the Chinese Language Flagship Partner Program and Professor of Chinese in the School of International Letters and Culture. She has been teaching and doing research in Chinese language, literature, and culture for over twenty-five years. Prior to moving to Arizona, she was the first academic director of the K-16 Chinese Language Flagship at the University of Oregon and before that she was a professor of Chinese language and civilization at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests are in pedagogy (second language acquisition, teacher training, computer-based instruction, curricular development and assessment) and literature (Six Dynasties and Tang fiction, Tang-Song prose, rhetoric, modern Chinese fiction and film). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Spring is also Director of the ASU Confucius Institute and Director of the Chinese Language Program in the School of International Letters and Culture at ASU. In addition to her work on national initiatives relating to Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language such as STARTALK, Asia Society, and College Board, Spring serves on the boards of several national organizations (e.g., the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), the Chinese Language Advisory Board for the Council on International Education (CIEE), and the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai’i. Author of a book-length study on ninth-century allegorical essays (Animal Allegories in T'ang China), and numerous scholarly articles on and translations of literary works of this period, she has also studied and translated several works of modern short fiction.
The new edition of Spring’s textbook Making Connections: Improve Your Listening Comprehension in Chinese will be published by Cheng and Ts’ui in Fall 2010. Her recent publications relating to Flagship include “Linking Curriculum, Assessment, and Professional Development: Challenges of a K-16 Articulated Program,” Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Ed. M. Everson and Y. Xiao. Boston, Cheng & Tsui, 2009; “Innovations in Language Learning: The Oregon Chinese Flagship Model,” co-authored with C. Falsgraf. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 4 (Spring 2007), 1-16; and “Flying the Flag for Chinese,” Language Magazine, 6.10, (June 2007): 20-22.
