Learning a foreign language takes a lot of practice. Memorizing lists of vocabulary words and writing Chinese characters over and over again can be very...

In the past few years, I have been teaching different groups of young children in different language classes. I have encountered  several pedagogical problems and...

How do you teach very young learners when they hardly know how to speak? How would you design your lessons when you have a group...

What do you teach in the first lesson of your Chinese class? How do you help your students gain interests in the Chinese language and...

Students : K-12, Adults/ Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Learning Objectives: Student will be able to apply festival greetings to show wishes to their families, friends and...

随着科技在教学中的应用越来越广泛，视频也在中文课堂中被广泛使用。观看视频给学生提供了一个真实的语言环境，加深了学生对文化情境的直观感受。但是，如果学生只是单纯观看视频，而没有活动设置，往往不能达到视频在语言学习中的预期效果。笔者在此就如何设计与视频相关的课堂任务，给出活动步骤的一个样本，希望广大老师能作为参考并灵活应用。 1. 预习 (老师可以介绍视频涉及的话题，或者播放视频但静音) Warm up (preview the video without audio)。 让学生预测10个视频中会出现的中文单词（如果学生无法写出中文单词，可用英文代替，目的是让学生预测视频内容，有目的性地观看视频 ）。 学生将自己写出的10个词与同桌交换，让对方写出英文/中文对应的意思。 2. 第一遍观看 First-time Video Review 在预测单词中，圈出你在视频中听到的单词。 标出每一个词出现的次数。 把你在视频中听到的其他词列出来。 3. 第二遍观看 Second-time...

Do you know why 羊 (Yáng) Ram is placed as the eighth animal in the Chinese Zodiac? On the Jade Emperor's birthday, all the animals...

The Year of Ram is slowly coming down the pike. Do you have Chinese New Year activities all planned out? Here are some ideas I...

We are excited to be mentioned in the Asia Society and Language Educator magazine about using our secondary curriculum Discovering Chinese Pro as the main...