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<div class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">May I ask you to help spread the word about this event?</div>
<div class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thanks and best wishes,</div>
<div class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Fred</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">Being and Becoming a Teacher of Chinese</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);"> <b class="">as
a Foreign and Second Language Today</b> - <b class=""><i class="">From the Weakest to the Strongest Link</i></b><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">International conference at the University of Helsinki, Finland<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">Website: <a href="http://blogs.helsinki.fi/tcfl-hk2017/" class="">http://blogs.helsinki.fi/tcfl-hk2017/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">Dates:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);"> 22
& 23 May 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">Co-organised by The Department of Teacher Education (The Chinese Education
Research Group, CERG) and The Confucius Institute of the University of Helsinki<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">Plenary speakers:</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">Professor Li Wei (</span></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'ＭＳ 明朝'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">李嵬</span></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">),</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);"> UCL
Institute of Education, University College London, UK<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">Professor Xiangyun Du,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);"> Aalborg
University, Denmark<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">Call for papers:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Submit a proposal: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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