Thinking Aloud What could I do in TCFL? – Design and publish a (fun and engaging) text book – Develop authentic materials (lesson plans, flashcards, activities and games) – Design an online course (with Instreamia) – Train as a Language Teaching consultant (CELTA-style)
Category: Understanding Teaching and Learning in China
Personal research project on understanding the role of the teacher in China.
CLT classroom activities often take the form of pair or group work, which help students develop their communicative competence in an authentic context.
Why participate in LTMOOC? Because I love learning languages! So it all started about 20 years ago, my first year of secondary school, and French was obligatory. Not that I minded, my teacher loved her subject, and that love resonated with her students. Fast forward 10 years, and I lived and worked in Paris for…
A better way to learn Chinese? That’s the title of an awesome article I just read about. It discusses – a) the frustrations of current language teaching methods in China, and b) one team’s research into finding a mathematical answer to the problem The fact that even Chinese people forget some of the basic 3,500…
My new interest: Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second Language! I would like to attend one of these conferences after the summer. However, as a student of Chinese, rather than a teacher, I am not sure how easy that will be. But they do say, “where there’s a will, there’s a way!”