Just as the demand for Chinese language programs is growing across North America, schools are facing a shortage of trained teachers and a host of challenges. How can teachers meet the needs of a complex classroom filled with both Chinese heritage learners and those completely new to Chinese? How can Chinese teachers from diverse backgrounds adapt to a North American teaching environment and expectations? Designed to help teachers create and execute strong, sustainable K-16 Chinese language programs, this ground-breaking resource book is the first of its kind specifically written for teachers of Chinese as a foreign language. It contains essays written by a diverse group of experienced educators in the field. Essays are divided into three main sections: 1) Teaching Chinese in Context, 2) Teacher Knowledge and Pedagogical Decisions, 3) Challenges and Strategies for the North American Classroom. Features: * Perfect as a course book for pre-service and in-service teacher training programs. * Contains just the right blend of theory and practice---includes relevant theories as well as hands-on classroom methods, examples, and innovations. * Addresses not only how to teach the language, but also how to create and sustain a sequenced, articulated curriculum---especially relevant as the demand for new Chinese programs continues to rise. * Stresses application of both ACTFL national content standards and Chinese language standards.

Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: Theories and Applications, 2nd edition

YUN XIAO

Michael Everson

Cheng & Tsui Company

Chinese is the most commonly spoken language in the world and one of the very few contemporary languages whose history is documented in an unbroken tradition extending back to the second millennium. Compared with Western languages, Chinese has a typology with distinguished features in sound system, syntax, and discourse that have a strong impact on Chinese linguistics studies and language learning. Drawing on theoretical models from formal and functional linguistics, discourse analysis, computer-assisted corpus studies, language socialization, and second language acquisition, this volume presents new advances and addresses a broad range of current issues in the study of Chinese linguistics with research studies that originated from the proceedings of the 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-21). As globalization presses on, more and more people are interested in Chinese its history, structure, research, and new developments. This volume aims to be instrumental. Written in a coherent and structured style, each section is concentrated on a particular linguistic area, and each chapter is self-contained with a clear focus and theoretical framework. It will be valuable to linguists, educators, administrators, specialists, teachers and students of Chinese as a native, second, heritage, or foreign language.

Current Issues in Chinese Linguistics

Reference

Liang Tao

Hooi Ling Soh

Words, Language & Grammar

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Just as children gain literacy in their native language by reading, learners of a foreign language must read large amounts of level-appropriate books and material to attain fluency in their target language. Tales and Traditions was specially created to help learners of Chinese achieve that goal, by collecting adaptations and selections from the most well-known works in the Chinese literary and folk canon in a series of convenient supplementary readers. Perfect for pleasure reading outside of class, or class instruction, Tales and Traditions exposes students to a wealth of information essential for the development of cultural fluency in Chinese.

Tales and Traditions Vol.3 (Readings in Chinese Literature) (Chinese and English Edition)

Hui Xiao

Ying, Wang

Just as children gain literacy in their native language by reading, learners of a foreign language must read large amounts of level-appropriate books and material to attain fluency in their target language. Tales and Traditions was specially created to help learners of Chinese achieve that goal, by collecting adaptations and selections from the most well-known works in the Chinese literary and folk canon in a series of convenient supplementary readers. Perfect for pleasure reading outside of class, or class instruction, Tales and Traditions exposes students to a wealth of information essential for the development of cultural fluency in Chinese. Forthcoming second edition features -Simplified and traditional characters on facing pages -New Multiple-choice reading comprehension questions designed for AP* exam preparation -New Extended discussion question that fulfill the Culture and Comparison strands of ACTFL's 5 C's or encourage further research -New Additional background information about important historical figures

Tales and Traditions, Volume 4, 2nd edition (Chinese Edition) (Readings in Chinese Literature) (Chinese and English Edition)

Cheng & Tsui

100 Details in Breeding Perfect Girls (Chinese Edition)

Blossom Press

Parents must know family educational psychology (Chinese Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

boy should be so poor a raise

Morning Glory Press Pub. Date :2010-05-01

How can we understand the girls'inner world and her growth rule? How can we master the best way to educate them? How can we cultivate the perfect girls? In fact, cultivating the perfect girls, is both a difficult and simple thing. The point is if the parents can understand the girls distinctive psychological features, and pay attention to every detail in family education! This book starts from their psychological features, aims at all aspects of their life, and summarizes the 100 details of education.

The 100 Details that Cultivate the Perfect Girls (New Revised Hardcover Edition) (Chinese Edition)

Gifts for mom - my first set of picture books grow up happy(Chinese Edition)

China Population

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