The Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), founded in 1962, is an American teachers' association devoted to promote the teaching and study of

Chinese language Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the wor ...

and

culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tyl ...

. It publishes the ''

Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association The ''Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association'', or ''Zhongwen jiaoshi xuehui xuebao'' (中文教師學會學報), is an academic journal in the field of language education, focusing upon aspects of Chinese as a foreign language, Chine ...

'' (JCLTA), a leading scientific journal in the field of

Chinese linguistics Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible. Variation is particularly strong in the more mountainous southeast of mainl ...

, didactics, and

literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

. Articles are available on the CLTA's website after subscription, and in paper form in subscribing libraries. The journal ''Chinese as a Second Language'' (CSL) is a continuation of JCLTA that publishes peer-reviewed original articles in English or Chinese (simplified of traditional characters) that make significant contributions to the theory and/or practice of Chinese as a second language. CTLA-US members receive CSL's publications, or readers must subscribe to the Journal.

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External links

* * http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/DB=2.1/SET=1/TTL=2/CLK?IKT=1016&TRM=Journal+of+the+Chinese+Language+Teachers+Association * http://clta-us.org/history/ Language teacher associations {{ling-org-stub