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Chinese
as a Foreign Language Teacher Training Workshop
5-6 July
2009
St
Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Day
1:
Morning
10-12:45: Teacher Panel
Invited
teachers:
Dr Lianyi
Song – SOAS, London
Dr Song has been teaching Chinese in the UK for 18
years. He was the chairman of British Chinese Language Teaching Society in
2003-04. He is the Principal Teaching Fellow in Chinese at SOAS, London.
Dr Ruth
Herd – Imperial College, London
Dr Herd is the coordinator of Chinese at Imperial
College, London. She holds BA degrees in Chinese and Japanese from SOAS and now
teaches both languages.
Ms Jing Jing Zhao – Brighton
College
Ms Zhao is the head of Chinese at Brighton College – the first
independent college in the UK which makes Chinese learning compulsory. She has
experience of teaching in both primary and secondary sectors and involves in
training local teachers and developing course materials.
During
this session, teachers on the panel will present their solutions to a list of
questions commonly-encountered in classrooms regarding pronunciation, grammar,
characters, etc. This session includes 2 hours of presentation and 45 minutes
question time. PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR A LINK TO THE QUESTIONS THAT WILL BE DEALT WITH, AND DETAILS OF HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR OWN QUESTIONS.
Afternoon
2-4: Classroom Activity Workshop
A
hands-on workshop on how to organise activities in Chinese language teaching
classrooms Ms Uei Chiang-Schreiber, Chinesisch-Multivitamin Ltd, Germany.
Ms Uei is the
director of Chinesisch-Multivitamin Ltd – a company specialising in providing
tailor-made Chinese courses and developing teaching methodologies, i.e,
accelerated learning, educational drama, rhythmics, kinesthetic style and
holistic mnemonic training.
Day
2:
Morning
9:30 –
11:00 How to Teach the Four Language Skills in SLA
Professor
Ernesto Macaro, University of Oxford
Prof.
Macaro is the director of the Applied Linguistics and Second Language
Acquisition course and the PGCE in Modern Languages course, at Department of
Education, University of Oxford.
11:15 -
12:45 Chinese Language Qualifications
Ms Sarah
Cartwright – the consortium programme manager with CILT. Ms Cartwright is a Language Teacher adviser who have managed a large
post 16 curriculum offer in a London college, which included A Level and GCSE
Chinese for mother-tongue speakers.
Ms Cartwright will give an overview of the qualifications currently
available in Chinese in England.
Ms Zhaoxia Pang - the examiner for the HSK test at SOAS London. Ms Pang runs the
HSK preparation classes and is involves in the HSK test ever since it started
in the UK.
Qualification presented (by the Chinese Ministry of
Education):
- HSK / Chinese Proficiency Test
Ms Alice Webb – the Chief Examiner with AQA. Ms Webb
holds a BA degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, She has many years of
teaching experience in both the private and state sectors with students from
primary to university level.
Qualifications presented (by AQA):
- Mandarin Chinese Entry Level Certificate (ELC)
- Mandarin Chinese Foundation Certificate of
Secondary Education (FCSE)
- Mandarin Chinese GCSE
Afternoon
2:00 –
3:00 The Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Teaching
Mr
Shio-yun Kan, University of Oxford
Mr
Kan is the senior instructor in Chinese at the Institute for Chinese Studies,
University of Oxford. He is also the coordinator of the language committee of
British Inter-university China Centre. Mr Kan has been teaching Chinese at
Oxford for more than 25 years and has organised a number of projects related to
Chinese language promotion.
3:15 -
4:30 Internet Tools for Learning and Teaching Chinese
Dr Wim
Oostindier, Hanze University Groningen, the Netherlands
Dr
Oostindier specialises in evaluating the internet tools for learning and
teaching Chinese language such as dictionaries, sounding, grammar, medias, etc.
He is now developing his own dashboard to offer a collection of useful tools to
learners and teachers of Chinese.