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  • German classes being cut to make way for Mandarin

    German in a Multicultural World

    Shannon Jensen for The New York Times

    Robert Williams, who teaches German at Fairfax High School in Virginia, says students come in with negative images of Germany, and Mandarin is encroaching.

    By 
    Published: April 13, 2012

    ON the day in November 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down, Michael Legutke, a linguist working for the West German government, was in Casper, Wyo., leading a training workshop for the state’s German teachers. When the TV news affiliate learned there was a real live German, right there in Casper — and one who had grown up in East Germany and spoke flawless English — he was recruited to do a live feed. Dr. Legutke found himself facing a camera, taking turns offering news commentary with Tom Brokaw in Berlin. Moved by the images of East Germans streaming through the breached wall into the west, Dr. Legutke wept during the broadcast.

  • Chinese Language Education and Research Center conference, Santa Clara

    Chinese Language Education and Research Center                                           

     

      加州中文教学研究中心
    2012 CLERC Seminar & Workshop Series III 
    When  ­    时间

    Saturday

    April 28  ,  2012

    2:00pm – 4:00pm

     

     

    Where­­­­­­     地点

    CLERC Lecture Hall

    3000 Lakeside Drive,

    Santa Clara, CA 95054

     

     

    Contact   联系人

    Jessy Li

          Tel: (408)380-8088       

    Fax:  (408)380-8089

    jessy.li@nanhai.com

    http://www.nanhai.com

     

     

    CLERC

    Textbook Showroom

    中文教材展示区

     

    Open：2:00 – 5:00pm

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    主题：综合中文课教学元素与教法

     Topic:    Key Elements in Teaching Integrated Chinese and Corresponding Teaching Methods

     

    主讲人：张英     

            北京大学对外汉语教育学院院长

            对外汉语文化教学、教材及教法研究专家

     Dean of School of Chinese as a Second Language of Peking University; Expert on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

     

    适合年龄：各层次的中文教师

    Audience:    Chinese Teachers of All Levels

     内容提要：

       综合中文课教学元素有很多，从教学内容划分，有语言和文化；从教学目标划分，有语言技能和文化理解；从教学组织和课堂管理划分，有教学设计和教学方法，等等。

       本次讲座将和听众主要探讨与分享的是：如何针对不同的教学对象，把综合中文课中的教学诸要素与不同的教学方法有机结合起来以实现教学效率的最大化。张英老师将自身从多年对外汉语教学工作中总结出的研究成果与经验与大家分享，希望向老师们提供一些实用，高效率的教授综合中文课的途径与方法。

       千万不要错过这次讲授中文文化教学和综合课教学的高水平讲座，欢迎对本次讲座内容感兴趣的老师报名参加讲座！

    讲座对公众免费开放。颁发培训证书。

    请点击下载 报名表(Registration Form) WORD  PDF

    报名截止日期：2012年4月26日

    Free Registration. Certificate of Attendance will be issued.

    Registration Deadline:  April 26th, 2012
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    Chinese Language Education & Research Center | 510 Broadway | Ste 200 | Millbrae | CA | 94030

  • San Francisco’s first Mandarin immersion class graduates

    Mandarin masters: Starr King’s 1st class grows up

    Jill Tucker

    Tuesday, April 17, 2012

    Brant Ward / The Chronicle

    Jack Gaughan is among the first students to have enrolled in the Mandarin immersion program at Starr King Elementary in San Francisco. Of the original 23 students, 16 remain with nine joining later.

    In the fall of 2006, 23 kindergartners walked into their classroom for the first time at Starr King Elementary in San Francisco where their teacher only spoke Mandarin, a language most of the children had never seen nor heard.

    They were the first batch of students to enroll in the district’s new Mandarin immersion program, one of only a handful across the country offering immersion in this particular language.

    It was a leap of faith for parents. The program, one of a handful of Mandarin programs in the country, lacked materials and teachers, and nationwide there wasn’t a lot of professional experience in teaching one of the most difficult languages to learn.

    Fast-forward nearly six years.

    Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/16/BAM91O1A1S.DTL#ixzz1sJjOtluS

  • Calgary charges $510 for bus to immersion program

    Parents balk at higher fees

    CBE says it must cover shortfall

    BY RICHARD CUTHBERTSON, CALGARY HERALD APRIL 14, 2012
    As the Calgary Board of Education overhauls what it charges for busing and noon supervision, it is facing criticism over which alternative programs it is targeting for significantly higher fees.

    The new schedule released by the board tags parents of a child in elementary school alternative programs with a $510 bill next fall for bus and lunch supervision, a 72 per cent increase.

    The board says it simply costs more to transport kids in these types of programs, which range from French immersion right down to all-boys, because most aren’t going to their local school.

    But the head of one parent group questions why some popular programs like French immersion will be forced to pay the same fees as far more unusual offerings that are likely much more expensive.

    Read more:http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Parents+balk+higher+fees/6459358/story.html#ixzz1sJiRJGFn

  • New book on Chinese in elementary school available online

    Chinese Language Learning in the Early Grades

    (Image courtesy: Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School)

    (Image courtesy: Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School)

    New York, April 12, 2012—Asia Society today released a new book (available as afree download): Chinese Language Learning in the Early Grades, a handbook of resources and best practices for Mandarin immersion.

    Chinese immersion programs are among the fastest-growing areas of language education in American schools. Research shows that immersion is an especially effective method for language acquisition: they result in high levels of proficiency at relatively low cost. Immersion students gain proficiency in a new language without any detriment to progress in their native language or to subject matter

    Please read more here.

  • Spots still open in Pasadena Mandarin immersion

    Late Applications for PUSD Open Enrollment Being Accepted

    There are a few spots left in the Mandarin and Spanish dual-language immersion programs and some College and Career Pathways programs.

    The Pasadena Unified School District opens its late application period for open enrollment tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. It will run weekdays until April 17 from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

    Parents or legal guardians must deliver their applications in person at the District Office, 351 S Hudson Ave. in Pasadena. Entry will be allowed at the Del Mar St. entrance. Applications must be completed in the office, online.

    Please read more here.

  • Grand Rapids Township, Mich. starts sister city relationship with Beijing

    GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, MI – Third-graders enrolled in the Chinese Immersion Program at Meadow Brook Elementary today engaged in a conversation in Mandarin Chinese with the principal of their sister school in Beijing, China.

    “I am looking forward to a long and prosperous relationship between our two schools,” said Weidong Liang, principal of Yihai Campus of theBeijing No. 2 Experimental Primary School, during an assembly in which he and Meadow Brook principal Tim Shaw signed the agreements launching the partnership.

    Please read more here.