Professor Jin Huei Dai was selected to join the Professional Learning Community, “Building a Heritage/Native Speaker Professional Learning Program” as a part of the Berkeley Language Center East Bay Foreign Language Project. She traveled to Berkeley in early October to take part in the Project Meetings where they discussed current professional research articles, reviewed established heritage program models, explored effective literacy strategies, and established guidelines to prepare students to attain the CA World Language Standards.

Professor Dai has taught heritage and non-heritage students at local schools through content-based instruction (CBI). She hopes to implement CBI into K-12 programs in the community and bring in more advanced learners of foreign languages.