Presenter: Jennifer Li-Chia Liu, Professor of the Practice of Language Pedagogy and Director of the Chinese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations ,Director of the Harvard Beijing Academy, Harvard University.

Title:Languages Across the Curriculum: Models for Bridging Language and Content

Speaker: Naoko Taguchi, Professor in the Modern Languages Department at Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Learning How to Learn Pragmatics: Cultivating Self-Directed Learning Strategies for Pragmatics

Learning pragmatics involves understanding a relationship among linguistic forms and their

functional possibilities, and contextual elements that determine the form–function relationship

(Taguchi, 2019). Although the importance of pragmatics is widely recognized in second