Proposal: Learning
Chinese with Fun
By Xu Li
Ramapo Central
School District
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Warm up for the class at the beginning of the year
with easiness (the garage band project as an example).
Students like to use the latest technologies to show
cool stuff made by themselves without knowing that
they were reviewing Chinese learned last year.
Students repeated their speeches in Chinese through
the recording.
Easy to apply the differentiated instruction with
different level and different interest.
Videocast
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Engage students to participate (the weather project of
8th grade as an example).
100% students participated (One of students who was
misbehaved in class did good job in this project).
Students learn from each other with happiness.
Enjoyed every minute include practice.
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Encourage students to compete with fun
Students in 7th graders felt successful
when they understood the conversation when they watched the video of the
weather project.
This was a fun review material for 7th
grades.
Students in 7th grade tried hard to do a
better project.
Videoconference
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To Be A Teacher Project (videoconference with the 3rd
graders of Sloatsburg)
Students, especially 6th graders, like to
be teachers to teach elementary school students.
All projects are very creative (making Chinese Hamster
Dance, pictures of characters evolution, …)
Chinese culture research.
Differentiated instruction
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To make a flattened classroom(in process) (videoconference
with the sister school in China)
Students communicate in Chinese with the peers of the
sister school as much as possible.
Students ask and answer questions to each other.
Real foreign language environment benefit for both
sides.
Various Class Activities
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Fun Links for singing
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Useful links for listening
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Chinese website for reading
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E-picture books for listening and reading
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Language lab