Chinese Teacher 2 Teacher 2 has taught English to Chinese students for 17 years. She holds a TCFL certificate. Her teaching role is split in two – Teacher Trainer and Chinese Teacher. T2 uses a Chinese concept to describe her attitude to teaching students: “因材施教/yin1cai2shi1jiao4“。(Different students, require different teaching methods). Regarding developments within the TCFL…
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Chinese Teacher 1. Interview Part 2. Teacher 1 believes that most textbooks for TCFL are not very good. However, she recommends the “Road to Success” textbook series. The topics are very practical. She uses her own supplementary teaching materials to support her TCFL classes. For example, pictures, which she uploads to her iPad to show…
Chinese Teacher 1 Interview Part 1 Teacher 1 has taught English to Chinese students for many years. She has recently started teaching Chinese, using the ideas she learnt from her Teaching English training to inform her lesson planning and material selection. T1 participated in a one month TCFL training at Beijing Foreign Languages University. The…
I am interested in learning more about Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. So I wrote a short questionnaire and sent it to my Chinese teacher friends. 我对对外汉语教学感兴趣。所以我写了一个简单的问卷。然后我把它给我的汉语老师朋友。