Chinese Associate Academy Teacher Training Program for Teaching Chinese as A Foreign Language

Subject

Content

Introduction to Teaching Chinese As a Foreign Language

• Current development and future trend of Teaching Chinese language and culture.

• Key factors to establish core competitiveness

Mandarin Four Skills Teaching Methods and Application

• Mandarin pronunciation teaching method

• Introduction to Chinese PinYin Romanization

• Mandarin listening and speaking teaching method

• Mandarin reading and writing teaching method

• Orthoepy

Introduction to Chinese Grammar and Sentence Patterns

• This course guides trainees to understand the principle and applications of Chinese grammar step by step.

• Chinese sentence patterns are introduced by the order of application frequency.

Mandarin Course Design and Lesson Plan

• Based on students’ background and program period

Teaching Resources and Teaching Activities

• Based on students’ background and learning goals

E-Learning Program Design

• Teaching model

• Teaching flowchart

• E-learning application on Mandarin program

E-Learning Courseware Design

• E-Learning courseware design flowchart

• Introduction to different types of courseware design

• Teaching goals and content outline

• Teaching strategies

Introductions to Mandarin Materials

• Mainland China

• Taiwan

• Other regions

Introduction to Chinese Proficiency Assessment

• HSK,TOCFL,TECC,AP, etc.

An Overview of Second Language Acquisition and

Instructional Practices

• Factors affecting language and culture learning

• Teaching approaches

Case Presentation and Discussion

• Course design

• E-Learning courseware design

• Presentation and discussion

Guidelines for Teaching Young Learners

• Young learner’s learning psychology

• Teaching methods and activities

• Classroom management

Introduction to Teaching Chinese Characters and Terms

• Chinese Traditional Characters vs. Simplified Characters

• Radicals (roots) by which Chinese characters

• Comparison of Chinese terms and phrases adopted in Taiwan and Mainland China

Online Real-Time Course Instruction

• Concept and flowchart

• Tools and tips

• Teaching activities design and practice

Mandarin Teacher’s Cultural Intelligence and Culture Course Design

• Introduction to cultural intelligence

• Culture class strategy

• Transform cultural resources into course package.

Real Lesson Demonstration

• Focus on teaching methods and process

Introduction to Chinese E-Learning Products and Services

• Introduce current TOCFL E-Learning products and services.