Teaching
the Chinese Language and Literature at the
Shuming Lu
Yonggang Huang
Yu Chun Wu
Chia-ju Chang
Teaching the Chinese
language and literature at the college level presents special challenges to the
designer of curricula and the instructor.
English and Chinese are two languages which are far apart from each
other. To get the points across to the
students and achieve effective teaching of the language and literature requires
resourceful thinking and innovative methods. In this panel, the first three
speakers focus on introduction of student-centered approaches on language
learning; and the fourth speaker will enlighten the audience on teaching
Chinese literature from a very new perspective.
Learning
Basic Chinese Fast: A Performance and Task-Oriented Approach
Teaching Basic Conversational Chinese in a Study Abroad Program in
Shuming Lu & Yonggang Huang
The result of a
15-day (4 hours daily) teaching time in a Study Abroad Program in
Activities Design for Intermediate Level
Yu Chun Wu
What
activities could be considered effective in an intermediate level Chinese
language class? This paper discusses several activities that were used in the
past two school years. Based on student responses to a standardized survey,
most of the activities did achieve the goals of the original design. However,
two activities: the Friday Movie activity and the TLEARN writing exercise have
been modified. Both of these activities required students to use technology and
to work on their own to some degree. Based on a comparison of student work the
outcome of these activities has improved over previous years.
Animals Behind the Scenes: Teaching Contemporary Animal Literature
and Animal Cultural Studies in the
So-called “animal writing” (dongwu xiezuo) that either addresses the plight of animal
condition or revokes
human-animal bond is a
rapidly emerging sub-genre of contemporary nature writing or environmental
literature in both Mainland China and