PROJECT PROPOSAL – Abstract

MAJOR IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (‘CHINESE TEACHER’)

Brooklyn College offers majors in foreign language teaching in French, Italian, and Spanish. Most students majoring in French and Spanish are respectively from Haiti and the Spanish speaking Americas. A considerable number of Spanish majors is bi-cultural and bi-lingual, having deep historical roots in the Spanish speaking communities of New York.

The major in “Chinese Teacher’ (for short) will expand the professional opportunities for HS of Chinese and will respond to an explosive demand for Chinese language instruction at all level of the educational system. A shortage of qualified teachers of Chinese is reported all over the country. Moreover, demand is constantly increasing and there are not enough program to graduate the number of teachers needed.


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CHINESE TEACHER PROGRAM


Admission to the program with ACFTL oral proficiency of Intermediate Mid.

* Expository Writing
* History of Chinese Language, Characters and Pinyin
* Oral Proficiency in Chinese
* Understanding Chinese Media
* Cultural History of China – the places, the artifacts, the literature
* Dialects and Geographical / Historical Cultural Divides
* History of Modern China: from the Opium Wars to Deng
* Chinese Language Teaching: Methods, Techniques and Materials
* Teaching Chinese Language with Technology
* Internship or practicum


In our midst, Hunter College (started last year) and Queens (to start Sept. 08) offers a similar program.