Panel of Teaching Chinese in Elementary
schools:
Presenter’s Bio:
Susan Yin Rui,
graduated from Anhui Teacher University
majoring in English and language teaching; obtained an MS degree of actuarial
science and statistics from the University
of Iowa and is currently
studying in a PhD program in Chinese language and teaching. She worked as a
bilingual educator in the New York City public
school system for nearly twenty years and is currently teaching Chinese in Roosevelt school district. She is familiar with the
bilingual learning environment and second language acquisition theory and
practice. In the area of teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language, there
is still a lot of room to improve. She is dedicated to the teaching and
learning of Chinese language.
芮茵， 毕业于安徽师大外语系英语专业。
获美国爱荷华大学统计学硕士学位和长岛大学硕士后教育行政管理执照。现于厦门大学攻读应用语言学博士学位，研究方向为对外汉语教学。在从事高中的双语教育二十年后，现供职于纽约州罗斯福学区，任中文教师。多年在英语为第二语的教学环境中，了解到语言学理论在教学实践中的重大指导作用。英语作为第二语的教学方法在不同语言学理论的基础上的实践，形成了多套行之有效的教学法。相形之下，汉语作为第二语的教学，还有极大的研究空间。有意在此领域作一些研究和实践。
Naomi, Jianping Zhang （张剑萍），is a dynamic motivated professional with 15 years of
teaching experience in a variety of learning environments from elementary to
college and academic arenas including Special Education，English as a Second Language and
Chinese as a foreign Language. Ms. Zhang is highly skilled in curriculum
design, performance evaluation, motivation, special needs assessment,
organization, classroom supervision, and problem resolution, as well as
technology and multimedia.
Education
New York University
– New York City, NY
Doctoral
Studies, Educational Technology, 9/94-6/95
City University
of New York – New
York City,
NY
M.S., Special
Education, 9/92-12/93
Northeast Louisiana
University – Monroe,
LA
M.A.,
Administration and Supervision of Media, 9/90-6/92
Beijing Foreign Studies
University – Beijing,
China
M.A.,
Linguistics of the English Language, 9/85-6/88
B.A., English
Language, 9/81-6/85
Nanjing University
– Nanjing, China
Chinese Language, Summer of 2006 and 2007
Establish a Chinese language Program to meet the needs
of community
符合社区期待的中文课程
Chinese language program is a new addition to many school districts as China becomes known to be an important player in the global economy and politics. Many school districts start the program with federal grants which have particular requirements for the program. Others seek resources in the community to set up the program. Once the program is set up, the important issue is to sustain the program and make the program effective.
As advocates of the Chinese language program in American elementary schools, we see the need for our Chinese language teachers to understand the purpose of the program in each different school district and to adapt the program to suit such a purpose. Though all language programs are geared to provide our students an opportunity to study a world language in order to become active global citizens, each school district is at different levels of understanding of the importance and needs of providing the Chinese language program and many of the districts are in the process of experimenting and researching the development of a Chinese program. Thus to develop a such a Chinese language program, we need to be sensitive to the school districts’ understanding and purpose of the Chinese language program and create such a program to suit their needs.
Roosevelt
school district is one of the new programs on Long Island.
Since its launching in 2006, the program expands from one elementary school to
all three elementary schools in the district and it enjoys great popularity in
the community. We work very hard to incorporate the language program with the
core curriculum and the culture of the community. Our effort wins the support
of the principal, the staff and the community. In this presentation, we will
share our experience in this aspect.
Lisa Huang Healy （黃麗娟）is
the New York State Certified teacher in Chinese, ESL and English, and currently
teaching Chinese in the public school district and the Chinese heritage school
on Long Island, New York. She
is going to share some Hands-on Activities & Games, TPRS and other teaching methodologies
for Chinese language learners in grades K-8.
輕松有趣學中文
Learning
Chinese is Easy and Fun
— 美國中、小學中文教學分享
Lisa Huang Healy 黄麗娟
Targeting audience:
K-8
Chinese language teachers for both public school and heritage schools
Part 1
Hands-on Activities & Games
For Chinese Language Learners
Sharing some hands-on activities and games
on both Chinese culture and language, which make Chinese learning attractive
and fascinating.
Part 2
Using TPRS Teaching Methodology
TPRS teaching experience and resource
sharing — your class can be more interesting and lively with this teaching approach.
Part 3
Rapping
about Chinese
Utilizing the rhythmic characteristic
of the Chinese language to make learning easy and fun through RAP.