Objectives This project will investigate the qualities and outcomes of American high school students' sojourns in China, with a particular focus on the emergence of intercultural interactions and language learning in a homestay setting. It seeks to capture the day-to-day processes of language socialization as they are occurring so as to broaden our understanding of the complexities of the study abroad experience. Students in the Landon-in-China program are volunteer participants in this CALPER project.
Project Directors: Celeste Kinginger, The Pennsylvania State University and Dali Tan, The Landon School
Landon-in-China: A Four-week Cultural and Linguistic Immersion Program
 Beijing Foreign Language Festival 2011 Photo: www.ebeijing.gov.cn |
The co-educational "Landon-in-China" program is built upon the long relationship between the Landon School (Bethesda, MD) and its three sister schools in Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai. The program is open to students in rising 9th grade and above and will take place from July 20 to August 17, 2012. To participate in the program, no previous knowledge of Chinese is required. |
| Students from Landon and many other schools have traveled to China with Dr. Dali Tan since 2001. The four-week language immersion program has students staying with families in Beijing and Chengdu while attending intensive four hours of language classes in the morning and cultural classes in the afternoon. The students will return to the United States from Shanghai. There is also a Landon-in-China internship opportunities in areas of students’ interests. |  Landon-in-China students. Photo: D. Tan |
 Longhua Temple. Photo: www.shanghai.gov.cn | |
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Watch the Landon-in-China video, then follow the link below for application packets for both the home stay cultural and linguistic immersion program and the internship program.
Flyer and Application Packet (link will open in a new window) The Landon-in-China program was featured recently in a broadcast by CCTV. The link to the video segment is posted on the Landon-in-China website. For more information about Landon-in-China contact: Dr. Dali Tan at dali_tan@landon.net. |