neal, mandarin chinese teacher education 2018
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“By sharing our work and engaging in healthy debate, we can all help
contribute towards a Chinese as a Foreign Language pedagogy and
thereby ensure Chinese becomes properly embedded within the UK school
curriculum.”
Neal,’ Mandarin Chinese Teacher Education’ 2018
“Language teachers should be the decision-makers: they need to have a
say in what counts as theory, curriculum and policy for language
teaching. To do so, they need to take the initiative and be the creators
and promotors of new theory and new pedagogy”
Lin Pan, Rob Neal, Paul Tyskerud & Katharine Carruthers, ‘Mandarin
Chinese Teacher Education’ 2018
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
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“By sharing our work and engaging in healthy debate, we can all help
contribute towards a Chinese as a Foreign Language pedagogy and
thereby ensure Chinese becomes properly embedded within the UK school
curriculum.”
Neal,’ Mandarin Chinese Teacher Education’ 2018
“Language teachers should be the decision-makers: they need to have a
say in what counts as theory, curriculum and policy for language
teaching. To do so, they need to take the initiative and be the creators
and promotors of new theory and new pedagogy”
Lin Pan, Rob Neal, Paul Tyskerud & Katharine Carruthers, ‘Mandarin
Chinese Teacher Education’ 2018
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Goals & Aims
What we teach and why
Pedagogy
How to teach effectively
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
To increase cross-cultural awareness
To boost overall cognitive development
To contribute to the future development of pupils’ careers
“To open a new window on the world through a unique body
of linguistic and cultural knowledge”
To understand the scholarly and literary texts of another
culture
To promote social equality
To raise attainment in core subjects
To communicate with Chinese speakers
To prepare students for future study in GCSEs and beyond
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Strokes
• Radicals
• Characters
• Pinyin/phonics
• Tones
• Everyday life
• Target language
• Meta-linguistics (e.g. explicit teaching about pictographic and ideographic
characters, semantic and phonetic radicals)
• Cross-cultural awareness
• History
• Culture
• Literature
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Goals & Aims
What we teach and why
Pedagogy
How to teach effectively
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
“[Literature] has been gradually abandoned due to the view that literature is too difficult or not even a necessary component of foreign language teaching. Instead more instrumental functions of the language with so-called communicative value have been favoured to the detriment of the use of literature” Diamantidaki, ‘Mandarin Chinese Teacher Education’ 2018
“Over the last 20 years or more, the subject discipline of foreign languages has been emptied of
cultural content with the effect of reducing it to a ‘get by’ toolkit of transactional and ‘survival’
language’. Even the small proportion of pupils who continue to learn a foreign language beyond the
compulsory minimum acquire very little cultural knowledge, and thus the ‘window on the world’ is
shut”
Lawes, ‘What should schools teach? Disciplines, subjects and the pursuit of truth’ 2017
What role do these different elements play in
your primary curriculum?
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Strokes
• Radicals
• Characters
• Pinyin/phonics
• Tones
• Everyday life
• Target language
• Meta-linguistics (e.g. explicit teaching about pictographic and ideographic
characters, semantic and phonetic radicals)
• Cross-cultural awareness
• History
• Culture
• Literature
Model text
Meaningful outcome
Language gamesUnpicking the text: highlight key vocab and grammar
Learning it by heart
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Assessment
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Model text
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Model text
我有眼睛我有头发我有鼻子我有耳朵我有口口口
Wǒ yǒu yǎn jīng Wǒ yǒu tóu fā Wǒ yǒu bí zi Wǒ yǒu ěr duǒ Wǒ yǒu kǒu
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
2
3
4 5
1
头发
tóu fā
3
4 5
1
头发
tóu fā
2
3
4 5头发
tóu fā
眼睛yǎn jīng
口kǒu
耳朵ěr duǒ
头发tóu fā
鼻子bí zǐ
这是什么?Zhè shì shénmē ?
这是____Zhè shì___
这是什么?Zhè shì shénmē ?
这是____Zhè shì___
这是什么?Zhè shì shénmē ?
这是____Zhè shì___
jingfatouyanyǎn jīngěr duǒtóu fābí zǐkǒu
erzibiduoyǎn jīngěr duǒtóu fābí zǐkǒu
Can you fill in the gaps to complete each word?
1. y*nj*ng =2. *rd** =3. b*z* =4. k**=5. t**f* =
bizizyanjingatoufaikoujerduoian
toufanerduoiyanjinghkouabizio
1. yǎn jīng 2. tóu fā 3. bí zi 4. ěr duǒ 5. kǒu 6. Roll again!
Meaningful outcome
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Meaningful outcome
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Meaningful outcome
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Assessment
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Strokes
• Radicals
• Characters
• Pinyin/phonics
• Tones
• Everyday life
• Target language
• Meta-linguistics (e.g. explicit teaching about pictographic and ideographic
characters, semantic and phonetic radicals)
• Cross-cultural awareness
• History
• Culture
• Literature
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Target Language
Statement: “Good teachers use the L2 almost exclusively”
Only 17% of teachers disagreed with this statement.
Macaro (1997)
“the idea that the exclusive use of the TL is a sign of a successful lesson has been contradicted”
“gradually build up a bank of target language phrases you would like to use in the classroom, making sure that learners understand them”
Pan (2018)
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Target Language
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Culture & The ISA
Year 3
Predator – animals in art link, Chinese mythical creatures
Tremors – Sichuan earthquake, typhoons, tsunami waves
Year 1
Paws, claws and whiskers – animals from China/habitats
Seasons– climate comparisons similarities and differences
china
Memory box – panda’s picnic/memories/personal history Year 2
Tunnels, towers, turrets - Forbidden palace contrast with
Tower of London, Hadrian’s wall and Great Wall
Land Ahoy – Marco Polo, Zheng He
Beachcombers – projects to conserve Chinese habitats. Save
the pandas. Panda picnic
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Culture & The ISA
Primary Mandarin: Planning for ProgressionPlanning for Progression: Culture & The ISA
Primary Chinese Library
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Culture & The ISA
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Culture & The ISA
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Culture & The ISA
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Culture & The ISA
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Culture & The ISA
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Culture & The ISA
Primary Mandarin: Planning for Progression
Planning for Progression: Culture & The ISA