TY - JOUR
T1 - AN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE MODEL OF ONLINE CHINESE COURSES
AU - Hsin, Shih Chang
AU - Wang, Ching Wei
AU - Huang, Yu Hui
N1 - Funding Information:
The head project and the four sub-projects formed a well-functioned team named Video-Conferencing Chinese (VC-Chinese). The VC-Chinese team already has been operating together for the past several years for a variety of research projects funded by National Science Council with the purpose of teaching distant Chinese courses for college level. It has accumulated rich experience for L2 Chinese in college level with Japan’s university.12 The team has established collaboration with some universities in Germany, Korea and the US for cross-cultural discussions between native Chinese tutors and foreign learners.13 Since the target learners of this project are not college students but high school students, the team has collected information about teaching environment of high school level of the States and conducted analysis in terms of current high school Chinese textbooks, Chinese courses, classroom pedagogy and students’ language learning approach. In the early stage of the project, subproject 3 has conducted a series of research about foreign language policies of certain American High schools as well as settings for online courses and foreign language classroom environment in American high schools. An actual field investigation was also made for a detailed survey the lab equipment and the settings of the foreign language classroom which was usually shared by classes of multiple foreign languages at the same time. The results of the needs analysis provides the accurate guidelines for instructional materials development, online activities design, asynchronized exercises, as well as our teacher training for online pedagogies.
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PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - This research project attempts to build a new cooperative model with the superintendents of school districts of various states in the United States. The idea behind the project is based on the urgent need of Mandarin Chinese courses in middle school level in the US. Since most school districts encounter the problem of not having enough Chinese teachers or teaching resources, offering Chinese courses through internet videoconferencing from Taiwan could be a feasible solution. This project involved some aspects including teaching materials design specifically for online instruction, communication with schools and their teachers/students, teacher’s training for synchronized online instruction, e-learning platform and facilities arrangement, and problem solving along the implementation process. The program has been implemented during the year of 2012. We have cooperative agreements with five schools districts in different states and have established a workable operation model for this international cooperation. Through this cooperative model, American students gain the benefit of learning resources through internet, and Mandarin educators and researchers in Taiwan also gain new insights on how to promote the Chinese language learning in the global community.
AB - This research project attempts to build a new cooperative model with the superintendents of school districts of various states in the United States. The idea behind the project is based on the urgent need of Mandarin Chinese courses in middle school level in the US. Since most school districts encounter the problem of not having enough Chinese teachers or teaching resources, offering Chinese courses through internet videoconferencing from Taiwan could be a feasible solution. This project involved some aspects including teaching materials design specifically for online instruction, communication with schools and their teachers/students, teacher’s training for synchronized online instruction, e-learning platform and facilities arrangement, and problem solving along the implementation process. The program has been implemented during the year of 2012. We have cooperative agreements with five schools districts in different states and have established a workable operation model for this international cooperation. Through this cooperative model, American students gain the benefit of learning resources through internet, and Mandarin educators and researchers in Taiwan also gain new insights on how to promote the Chinese language learning in the global community.
KW - American Middle Schools
KW - e-learning
KW - International Cooperation
KW - Online Mandarin Courses
KW - Teaching Chinese as a second language
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U2 - 10.3366/ijhac.2014.0101
DO - 10.3366/ijhac.2014.0101
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126725873
VL - 8
SP - 95
EP - 106
JO - International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
JF - International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
SN - 1753-8548
ER -