Untapped Potential: Ratcheting Up the Instruction to Teach Chinese Language in an

K-12 Class

Yuqing HongCurriculum Specialist

Office of ELLs, NYCDOE

Why Chinese?

Economic capitalPolitical capitalCultural capitalEducational capital

New Initiatives in the U.S.

National Flagship Language Initiative www.nflc.org/nfl Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP)

Overview of Chinese Language Programs in NYC

PopulationProgramsPedagogy

Overview of Chinese Language Programs in NYC

Population

- 16,649 ELLs are Chinese speaking

- highly concentrated districts:

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Overview of Chinese Language Programs in NYC

Programs:

- Chinese as a foreign language program (FL)

- Chinese bilingual program (NLA)

- Chinese dual language program (DL)

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The untapped potential:

Language featuresCurriculumMaterialsAssessmentPedagogy

The untapped potential:

Pedagogy – Panel discussion- Lily Shen

- Marisa Fang

- Rita Kwan

- Wendy Lin

Resources:

American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages – http://www.actfl.org

Asia Society – http://www.askasia.org Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools –

http://classk12.org College Board – http://apcentral.collegeboard.com The Chinese Ministry of Education and the National Office on the

Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language – www.hanban.edu.cn Chinese School Association in the United States –

http://www.csaus.org National Council of Associations of Chinese Language Schools –

www.ncacls.org National Council of State Supervisors For Languages – http://

www.ncssfl.org