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Teach Chinese in
Jing Wang, M.A.
Chinese
language is so much different from the Roman languages that are popularly
spoken and learned here. How to
help students better understand Chinese ways of thinking and speaking is very
important for learning and teaching Chinese. This presentation will not only discuss
these differences but also show how to employ some most effective methods used
in high school classroom.
Furthermore, the presenter will address to how to use the textbooks in
class. As we all know that high
school students do not learn much from dull, meaningless ¡°drill and kill¡±
exercise and assignment. Regardless
of topic, somewhere competent teachers are teaching that topic, and one of the
significant characteristics of the effectiveness is how to make topic alive and
relevant to themselves and to the students. In this presentation, all these issues will
be addressed. We will dig into the
reasons why some students lose interest in learning Chinese, so-called the most
difficult language. At the end of
the presentation you will not only know why, but also learn how to solve the
problem. For example, the project based
and interdisciplinary thematic instructions are ways of discovering how to make
a potentially dry and boring topic interesting and alive for students (and for
the teacher).