Category: Understanding Teaching and Learning in China

Personal research project on understanding the role of the teacher in China.

May 21, 2015 karinawp

On 14th April 2015, I participated in Learn Lab’s Business Models in Education workshop at Binggo Cafe in Beijing. About Learn Lab Learn Lab is an accelerator, an entity that brings people with ideas (entrepreneurs) together with people looking to invest in ideas (angel investors). Through education-focused training and mentoring, Learn Lab’s aim is to…

May 6, 2015 karinawp

What do the Chinese Parents Think? Continuing my research into facilitating parental involvement, I wanted to think more about my role as a teacher from a cultural perspective. For my current SLA project, I am thinking of ways for parents to get more involved in their children’s learning. However, upon deeper reflection, it may be,…

May 3, 2015 karinawp

A British Teacher in China As an individual, my view of teaching is based upon my own personal background, upbringing and culture. However, Starr (2012) highlights the dangers of this: “Western, predominantly Anglo-Saxon teachers (take) with them the assumption that the communicative approach (is) the ‘right’ way to teach a foreign language…” So as a…

April 7, 2015 karinawp

大家好!欢迎说听瑞娜说中文! 今天我用数字化联系中文。 首先我用手机自我录制。 然后我用imovie放个图片。 最后,我用一个字幕网站加字幕。 (不好意思,我做一个错误。‘英文字幕’=中文字幕 。‘中文字幕’=英文字幕。很抱歉!) 有VPN的人也可以在YouTube看! 额外资源 读(英文)中国人对纪录片的反应 我的字幕我在dotsub做的。下次会用Amara。后来告诉你们那个是最好的。

March 29, 2015 karinawp

昨天晚上我和我的朋友一起去音乐厅看演出。我没想到我会玩得那么开心!中国人和有外国人都来看子玉。她是加拿大人。一个非常有经验的歌手。因为她会说一口流利的汉语,所以她都用英语和汉语唱歌。子玉唱的歌词很有意义。她常常唱跟社会问题有关的歌。她很厉害! 如果你对双语歌词(英语和汉语)感兴趣,而且听到二胡,中国特殊的乐器,那我邀请你们去子玉的网站听一下她的很好听的歌。我特别喜欢‘老外’这个歌。合唱的歌词就是:‘我不只是个老外!’。 我也经常这样想。。。 Ember Swift   我的生词 音乐厅 – yin1yue4ting1 – concert hall 歌词 – ge1ci2 – lyrics 二胡 – er4hu2 – erhu, a two-stringed bowed instrument 合唱 – he2chang4 – chorus

March 29, 2015 karinawp

上周我和我的朋友一起去了电影院。我们看了‘帕丁顿熊’。虽然帕丁顿熊是译制片,没有字幕。没有英文字幕。没有中文字幕。语言字幕什么都没有!所以去看电影成为一个比较大的挑战!我的中国朋友向我说,‘瑞娜,这是一个很好的听力练习机会!’。我不同意她的看法!!! 因为我是成人我以为我不会喜欢这个电影。但是呢,这次电影对我很大的影响。我发现这个电影的故事很好玩,演员很人才,对话不错。而且,我看到伦敦最漂亮的地方,这让我很想念我的家乡。 关于故事的内容:很奇怪。在秘鲁的雨林有一对熊夫妻。有一天一个英国科学家在雨林做探索。他和这对熊夫妻见面了以后,他们都成为很好的朋友。时间过去了。科学家需要回英国。他向熊朋友说再见,给他们的帽子,告诉他们如果他们有机会来到英国,一定要去看他。后来,在这对夫妻的身边出现了一个小熊。(我写出现因为我不知道他是从哪儿来的。看起来他不是这对夫妻的孩子。)Anyway, 因为‘叔叔’去死了,而且‘老师’的身体不好,所以小熊戴上科学家的帽子去英国找他的家。 到英国后,小熊跟一家庭见面。他希望能跟他们生活。但是呢。。。我不要说太多! 如果你们要知道电影的结果,而且如果你们喜欢搞笑片,我建议你们去看这个电影!哈哈哈!     我的生词 帕丁顿熊 – pa4ding1dun4xiong2 – Paddington bear 译制片 – yi4zhi4pian4 -a dubbed film 挑战 – tiao3zhan4 – challenge 秘鲁 – bi4lu3 – Peru – 南美国家 雨林 – yu3lin2 – rainforest 科学家 – ke1xue2jia1 – scientist 探索 -tan4suo3 – explore 戴上帽子- dai4shang5mao4zi5 – put on a hat or…

March 25, 2015 karinawp

Learning, Teaching and Sharing As per my previous post of wanting to combine my skills and interest into one, the result of a serious brainstorm with a friend before I started my Masters in DTLT last year, was that of discussions about methodology with teachers. Add a healthy dose of technology, and what do we…

March 25, 2015 karinawp

Uncovering Future Interests Back in September 2014, just before I began my Masters in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching at the University of Nottingham, I met up with a friend who is an I.T. whizz. She was due to help me migrate my Tumblr blog to WordPress, help with plug-ins and in general, help me…

March 17, 2015 karinawp

In this interview I chat about learning and teaching Chinese with Piero Costa, co-founder of online Chinese learning platform Linguese (by Orientalmente). Check out the video to know more about Piero’s: – learning and teaching background – experience doing a Masters in TCSOL (Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages) – decision to launch an…

March 11, 2015 karinawp

老师: 你希望进一步提高汉语水平? 你希望进一步提高表达准确度和流利度? 已经掌握了150­0左右词汇,基本的汉语语法知识? 我: 对啊! 我会马上报名! 课程介绍: 本课程将讲解汉语作为第二语言学习中学习者最容易发生偏误的12个汉语最基本的语法项目,帮助学习者进一步理解、掌握这些语法项目在句法、语义及语用上的特点。 重要信息: 价格 - 免费 班开始 - 3月16号 (十四个星期)