Galal Walker

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Galal Walker (Chinese: 吴伟克; born 1943) is an American professor of Chinese language at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and a director the National East Asian Languages Resource Center, the Midwest US–China Flagship Program, and the Critical Language Scholarship Program at Ohio State University.[1]

Biography

Walker taught at Chinese universities including

Board of Visitors and the Defense Foreign Language Institute.[1] Later on, he became Principal investigator and collaborated with Chistine Su and Indonesian Institute.[2]

Awards

In 2003 he was awarded the

Distinguished Service Professor by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages.[4] He was also awarded with the Critical Languages Award and $9.6 million in prize in the same year.[2]

Publications

Galal used to serve on the editorial board of the

Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association and was an author of the Design for an Intensive Chinese Curriculum as well as Foreign Language Annals, Shaping the Future: Challenges and Opportunities and Chinese Pedagogy: An Emerging Field, Scott McGinnis. In 2010 he became an editor of Pedagogy of Performing Another Culture, and prior to this was also an editor of the Chinese: Communicating in the Culture which was also released as an audiobook.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Galal Walker". Chinese Flagship Program. Archived from the original on December 26, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Ohio State Receives $9.6 Million Critical Languages Award". College of Arts and Sciences. October 31, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  3. ^ "Galal Walker awarded the 2012 Cheng and Tsui "Walton Lifetime Achievement Award"". National East Asian Languages Resource Center. Archived from the original on October 9, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  4. College of Arts and Sciences
    . February 23, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  5. ^ "Galal Walker". Department of Eastern Asian Languages and Literatures. Archived from the original on December 26, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2013.

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