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Chinese On The U.S. Primary Curriculum
Author : Lanbo Jiang
Submitted : 2011-12-10 08:32:42 Word Count : 556 Popularity: 20
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In the U.S. and Chinese government are driven by the greater New York area began offering more and more primary schools to carry out even asked Mandarin Chinese courses.
Beginning this month, Manhattan NEST + m genius school from kindergarten to fifth grade curriculum in Spanish, Mandarin replaced. Dorset Park, Brooklyn Mori PS 310 and some primary schools, also launched a bilingual teaching program is the native language is Chinese for Chinese. The PS 20 and some schools in teaching in two languages to carry out the plan, so that half of the class is fluent in English, the other half are familiar with Mandarin Chinese.
Matthew Mitengtaer municipal education department spokesman said before, this region has had carried out 25 schools and two languages simultaneously bilingual teaching programs.
NEST + m Nice, president of Orr good Leva said: The character is a kind of hieroglyphics, Chinese and our language is quite different. The greater the difficulty, the child should start learning earlier.
The main reason is to promote Chinese learning the federal government has increased funding for Chinese language teaching programs, and each school also recognized the person in charge of China in the global economy s growing influence. At the same time, China is also promoting the teaching of Chinese overseas, for teachers, teaching materials and learning exchanges to China to provide subsidies.
New York University Chinese Language Teachers project coordinator, said Robin Harvey, New York, 2008 school year, about 50 public and 24 private schools offer Chinese courses. Since then, the figure has increased by 5 to 10 . New York City has also undertaken a number of new programs to those who can teaching Chinese as a second language teacher certificate.
Chinese is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education is critical to U.S. national security is one of several languages, the Ministry of Education carried out for those who are willing to fund Chinese medium schools.
China supports Chinese language teaching can also develop in the country. American colleges and universities through a program provided by the Commission, the United States access to a school funded by the Chinese government, serving two years of visiting teachers.
New York, only two schools currently have such guest teachers, their salaries and travel expenses borne by the Chinese government, accommodation and logistical costs borne by the school. The two teachers work from this year. Connecticut has nine guest teachers, two in New Jersey.
Some schools in the greater New York area also joined a project called Confucian classroom in the new program, and this project by the Chinese government organized by the Asia Society in New York. The partner school classrooms and China joint projects and exchanges, and training teachers to get help.
Linden, New Jersey school district s educational leader Luo Ketuo Maqi Qi said, not many Chinese people in a working class town, Chinese language teaching is a belief on the leap. Although not many people in China, a recent school students to sing Chinese songs, China Night performance still makes the school hall was packed. Now, Linden School District has more than 400 elementary school students learning Chinese.
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