I’m interested in doing a Masters which will allow to me to carry out a project related to designing an online language course. The three courses below look good. I will do some research and find out which one is the best match for me: MSC in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh MA in Digital…
Back in September 2013 the Guardian Teacher Network published some resources for pupils and teachers to help with learning and teaching Mandarin Chinese I also recommend these websites: 1. The Chinese Staff Room This is a niche website just for teachers of Chinese in schools. Wanting information on text-books, online resources for learning Chinese, free…
TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Questionnaire Chinese Teacher 9 Chinese Teacher 9 Teacher 9 has taught English to Chinese students for about 1 year. Teacher 9 has kindly translated her answers into English, so enjoy! 对外汉语教学采访 第九汉语老师教汉语一年多年了。 老师9慷慨翻译她的回答成英文. 享受吧！
Using Technologies in Language Learning, Teaching and Research, LWW-CETL
I recently re-listened to this interview of Daniela Schiano Di Cola (which I first listened to when I was participating in LTMOOC) who creates content for Diplomatic Language Courses. She mentions many useful language teaching resources, including the SCOLA website. Finally, I stumbled across this YouTube video on “How to learn a foreign language:…
I recently attended a CET webinar about using online games in the classroom (or as homework). The webinar features four games created and developed by Cambridge English Language Assessment. I’m all for, not only making lessons fun and engaging, but also using technology in the classroom, so I really enjoyed this webinar. The games…
TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Questionnaire Chinese Teacher 8 Teacher 8 has taught English to Chinese students for about 5 years. Teacher 8 has kindly translated her answers into English, so enjoy! 对外汉语教学采访 第八汉语老师教汉语五年多年了。 老师8慷慨翻译她的回答成英文. 享受吧！
Here’s another interesting journal published by the Asian EFL Journal in February 2006 about the experience of learning English in China from a summer English Language camp perspective. The conclusion suggests that summer camps such as the one described in the journal has ”great potential to provide rich opportunities for exchanging individual world views, promoting…
TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Questionnaire Chinese Teacher 7 Teacher 7 has taught English to Chinese students for about a year now, starting in the Spring 2012. 对外汉语教学问卷 第七位汉语老师不是一个很专业的教师。他只教汉语一年了 For Teacher 7, seeing her students gradually express themselves in Chinese, is a great sense of accomplishment, and the main reason why she…
TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Questionnaire Chinese Teacher 6 对外汉语教学问卷 第六汉语老师教汉语半年了。 Teacher 6 is new to teaching, with just 6 months experience. She joined this profession for the flexibility in working hours. She was trained at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Her studies focused on teaching spoken Chinese, teaching grammar, vocabulary teaching and…