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Surviving Chinatown
Posted by: dyang
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Incorporating Real Life Experiences into the Language Classroom
Incorporating authentic materials, such as restaurant menus, bus passes, and paintings into the Chinese language classroom is a highly effective method to help students gain a tangible understanding of the target language and culture. However, these authentic materials are limited in scope and cannot produce the same results as a real life, authentic experience of language and culture.
Accordingly, at China Institute, wherever possible we incorporate into our language programs practical, real world scenarios, through which students can become immersed in the target culture and use the target language, thus providing our students a critically important opportunity to apply and enhance their language skills in a culturally engaging environment.
We do this also in the knowledge that the “Communities” standard, according to ACTFL’s “five C” foreign language learning standards, is often the most challenging for Chinese language teachers to meet. Real world, practical experiences can help teachers better meet this standard, and effectively guide students to apply their Chinese language skills in an unconventional educational setting. This type of learning will require Chinese language teachers to think beyond his/her language classroom walls and reach out to the community, utilizing any available resources in order to achieve an immersive learning experience for the students.
About this Section
Posted by: Jared
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Welcome to china360 “Practice”. This section of the site is meant to serve as a discussion board and idea cook book for the teacher community. Here you can share your ideas and thoughts about the classroom, methods and techniques for classroom management, games that work, or anything that you think might benefit your fellow teachers and help to build a more engaging and challenging classroom experience for your students. You may also nominate a colleague who you think is an excellent educator and deserves a featured spot on this site.
Feel free to join a discussion below, start a new topic or nominate for your choice of featured educator.
Have fun and enjoy.
China Institute Education Department
The First Day of Class
Posted by: Jared
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
The tone we set the first day of class can determine the outcome of the entire year. Everything about how we act and what we say is being judged by our students. Our standards and expectations need to be set. This topic has been opened in hopes that our fellow teachers will share their thoughts, methodology and techniques on how to successfully navigate through this important day.
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