– Find out more about teacher training at the Confucius Institute. – Find out to what extent the idea of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been discussed in China – Discuss the core features of CLT with some Chinese teachers – Interview some “experts”/Chinese professors for their thoughts on the subject. – 了解更多关于教师培训在孔子学院。 – 了解在何种程度上交际语言教学（CLT）的理念在中国已经讨论这个话题…
The main limitations to my original questionnaire are: – The Chinese translation is not accurate, causes confusion, and therefore does not always elicit an accurate response from the reader – The questions are open-ended, which only allows for qualitative analysis, and not quantitative analysis 我问卷的局限： －我自己把英文翻译成中文。这样我的问题不太清楚。汉语老师可能不明白我的意思。结果汉语老师的回答也不太清楚。 －问卷的回答是定性分析的, 不是定量分析的
Just completed an excellent free course with Open2Study Open2Study is a platform that provides a mix of free and paid-for, accredited and non-accredited online courses. O2S is backed by Open Universities Australia (OUA). The excellent free online course – Teaching Adult Learners – with a focus on Online Teaching, is a balanced mix of theoretical…
Useful stuff I’ve come across: An Ethical Island by Mia is a great source of infographics to stimulate your teaching and learning Edudemic is a cool website that connects education and technology Read the Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers for inspiration Check out Teach Thought for a deeper understanding of teaching, learning and technology…
Another great resource for learning English online – TESOL FM. The world’s first internet radio station dedicated to the English language teachers of the world and the global community of English language learners.
I listened to this discussion led by Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) about the value and use of the CEFR for language teaching and learning. It’s of particular interest to me as I think about the content I am learning in Chinese class. At some point, I actually took the Trinity syllabus as a starting point…
This week I participated in an online webinar – Developing and Assessing Listening Skills at B1 and B2 Level. The participants were mostly teachers, from all around the world. The webinar provided great ideas on how to improve students’ listening skills for tests.
Definition, strengths and weaknesses of Communicative Language Teaching. Communicative Language Teaching presentation by the University of Colombo. Check out Teaching Helping Teachers for advice and support to teachers and learners in Asia. The Appeal and Poverty of CLT by Robert O’Neil (2000) discusses six fundamentally ‘trivial’ propositions inherent in CLT, the opposing propositions and gives…
China’s first MOOC platform is called Ewant! From the same article from which I discovered ewant, I also found someone had attached an interesting resource entitled, Open Educational Resources in the People’s Republic of China: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects for Development …I cannot wait to read it!
TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Questionnaire Chinese Teacher 10 Teacher 10 has taught English to Chinese students for about 4 years. Teacher 10 has kindly translated her answers into English, so enjoy! 对外汉语教学采访 第十汉语老师教汉语四年多了。 老师10慷慨翻译她的回答成英文. 享受吧！