Using English to Learn Mandarin Chinese

Education & Teaching

Kuo, Jenwei

Schools & Teaching

Jenwei Kuo

The new method enables learning Mandarin Chinese by reusing learners' rich and already-established English knowledge and communication skills (interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational) as the foundation, laying atop only the difference between the two languages. As a result, the method greatly reduces the amount of information for learners to absorb, and it completely eliminates the upfront mental resistance and enables much less input effort for much more proficiency gain than today's traditional brute force approach. For the same level of proficiency, the required instruction time of the new method is estimated less than 50% of that of the traditional method.

New Method Chinese (Textbook)

Zhang, Lihua

Chen, Judy

lulu.com

Glue Language is as critically important as the textbook for teaching a second language. The elements in Glue Language ("glue drops") are the supportive filler words, phrases, and sentences required to "glue" the main teaching topics together in target language during a textbook lesson. These glue drops are essential in an immersion class, exposing students to vital words, phrases, and sentences far before they are addressed in a textbook. Glue Language thus supplies the "missing link" in second language learning and teaching. Additionally, the students are also enabled to assume the teacher's role in teaching the Glue Language. Moreover, the scope of Student-Centered Learning may further be extended into textbook learning. Thus, Glue Language is the enabling tool for creating an immersion environment and for developing a winning Student-Centered immersion curriculum.

Glue Language 2.0

The &Delta;-Lingual(tm) Learning Content Creation System is an innovative system that compares students' native language X (e.g. English) and the target language Y (e.g. Mandarin). The &Delta;-Lingual(tm) Learning Content Creation System finds the similarity and difference (Delta &#8710;) between the two languages in the areas such as: vowel, consonant, intonation, syllable, grammar structure, number system, usage, etc., and presents the results in a systematic manner as illustrated in the book. The more similar X is to Y, the less effort is required of the students to absorb the difference &#8710;. As a result, &Delta;-Lingual(tm) Learning Content Creation System places students in a familiar and comprehensible environment, making the acquisition of a new language much easier, faster, and inspiring more confidence.

New Method Chinese

A Must-Read Tool Book for Mandarin Chinese Learners & Educators. Although human beings around the globe use many different languages, their needs and wants in their daily lives are largely similar. Thus, similarities between languages do exist, and often are amazingly plentiful. In this book, we capitalize on the precious clues embedded in the similarities between English and Chinese to empower learners with the confidence in that knowing one language can be significantly beneficial in learning the other. This process is called the &#916;-Lingual (R) language learning system, a proven method that is strongly validated by recent neuro-scientific research *. * Weber et. al. 2016 for the research details on the Journal of Neuroscience: https: //www.jneurosci.org/content/36/26/6872

Chinese Grammar Demystified 2.0