Learning Chinese the Challenge Way

Taiwan Challenge -- An Internet-based Chinese
Learning Experience Project

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by: Fan Fang and Chinese Primary Language Arts students at Abraham Lincoln High School, San Francisco, USA
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Much has been presented regarding the Internet integration of different curricular areas, especially in Social Studies, Science and Mathematics, on the World Wide Web. However, there is very little information on how to involve students actively in an Internet based language arts instruction, especially when the language is one of the less commonly taught languages in the United States.

This website presents another successful model on how to integrate computer technology and the Internet with a curriculum. It is an on going project. Specifically, we would like to present the following:

For other projects that Fan Fang and his students did, including a Chinese e-mail key-pal project, an online Chinese magazine project and more, please visit here.

Chinese Primary Language Arts 1C¡B2C class and students:

Chinese Primary Language Arts1C/2C is a high school first year primary language arts course designed for Limited English Proficient students, Chinese Bilingual students and students with immersion background at Abraham Lincoln High School to continue developing their Chinese language literacy. It receives Foreign Language credit for high school graduation requirement and University of California's  admission requirement. For more information about the course objectives, assignment and textbook, please visit here.

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The idea of this challenge comes from a lesson that we learned. In that lesson, an American born Chinese boy went to Taiwan with his parents. He was fascinated by the beautiful scenic spots of this island, and he recorded his trip in his journal. In this lesson, journal writing styles, autobiographical incident writing, and the use of personification are the main literacy elements that students are expected to master. Usually, after the instruction of a lesson like this, the teacher may ask students to write a similar journal to report a field trip or travel experience, which may fall into the boring traditional way of teaching Chinese. We turned this lesson into a "Challenge" unit where students were expected more than just knowing all the new words of a simple lesson. Most students in this class came from either mainland China or Hong Kong. They were very interested in knowing more about a place where people also speak Chinese.

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Challenge lesson procedure ¬D ¾Ô ±Ð ¾Ç ªº ¨B ÆJ :

The challenge lasted one month. Every day, students met with their teacher for 45 minutes (one period).

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Student products ¾Ç ¥Í ªº §@ «~ :

  1. An oral presentation conducted for each group to present their findings and for the rest of the class to ask questions. ¨C ¤@ ­Ó ¤p ²Õ ·Ç ³Æ ¤@ ­Ó ¤f ÀY ³ø §i ¡A ¨Ã ¦^ µª ¨ä ¥L ¾Ç ¥Í ªº ´£ °Ý ¡C
  2. Each group designed a web page to reflect their learning experience. ¨C ¤@ ­Ó ¤p ²Õ ³] ­p ¤@ ­Ó ºô ­¶ ¨Ó ¤Ï ¬M ¥L ­Ì ªº ¾Ç ²ß ¸g Åç ¡C
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