Personal research project on understanding the role of the teacher in China.
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！
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！
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…
Published in the mid-2000s, the article ELT in China and a China English Model discusses ELT in China at the time. It chronologically highlights the typical problems related to how English is taught to “non-majors” (those that do not intend to study English at university, but yet have to take an English test in order…
As a member of Cambridge English Teacher, I often watch the videos they upload to CambridgeEnglishTV on YouTube. Comparing IELTS to HSK This video is about the IELTS Speaking test – an internationally recognised qualification in the English language. Whereas IELTS tests students ability equally across the four language skills, it is interesting to note…
1. International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education (ICCLE) 2. Chinese Language Proficiency Scales for Speakers of Other Languages (CLPS) 3. Standards for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (STC) They were written by Hanban, the Office of Chinese Language Council International, to organise and describe objectives and content for a standardised Chinese language curriculum around…