4-Stage Chinese Language Teaching Methods
Keats School ( http://www.keatsschool.com ) has just created a 4-stage Chinese teaching method, to help students study Chinese in China quickly and efficiently. Both Chinese teachers and Chinese learners are welcome to use the 4-stage teaching methods.
In the first stage of accuracy training, teachers first find out some vocabulary points and sentence patterns that the students should master from the textbooks. Then, the most important thing is to use all kinds of possible methods to train students’ memory. After training by imitating the real contexts,learners will reach the goal of mastering vocabulary and sentences patterns. When you learn Chinese language in China, you should know it is an important step to learn spoken language.
The second phase of practice is the fluency training. After students can accurately express the contents they have learned, teachers will train then by setting certain context to do role play. Of course, it would be better that students can set contexts by themselves and train. We can also train by aiming at one certain point repeatedly by the form of asking and answering questions rapidly. During this stage of training, teachers at Keats School apply many effective methods to the teaching patiently. Most teachers in qualified Mandarin program possessthis quality to train students so that they can reach the goal of speaking freely.
In the third period of appropriateness training, students should use the language that correspond with Chinese people’s psychology and codes of language in different contexts and various topics according to Chinese culture. The main purpose of this trainingis to supplement some relevant cultural knowledge to the learners. Villa in Greece . After processing the simulated training by combining the topics and contexts, students can express their feeling appropriate. As the main content of Chinese classes in China, the appropriateness training should be paid much attention.
The last but not least step is the flexibility training. In order to help foreign students understand different questioning ways in the practical oral communication and give response flexibly, teachers at Keats School try their best to summarize some important sentences patternsor other language points that not appear in textbooks to students. The purposeis to help the foreign students to master more important points.
