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Effective Strategies For Integrating Stem Education Into Chinese Language Classroom, Sophie Wang, Christine Zhang
Effective Strategies For Integrating Stem Education Into Chinese Language Classroom, Sophie Wang, Christine Zhang
Faculty Publications & Research
1. What is STEM?
-How can it be integrated into the current language curriculum?
2. Why STEM?
-Trend of offering the Mandarin course at K-12 schools
3. Chinese Curriculum & STEM-focused topics
-The STEM-focused topics incorporated at IMSA
4. Teaching strategies
-Lesson design, use of authentic materials, activities
Maximizing Communicative Competency In A Classroom, Yinshun Wang
Maximizing Communicative Competency In A Classroom, Yinshun Wang
Faculty Publications & Research
Developing students’ communicative competence is a primary goal of many language classrooms. This session will present various strategies to encourage learner agency. The presenter will introduce strategies to execute fast-paced communicative learning activities that bypass mechanical activities and task-based student assessments to measure students’ proficiency in interpretive, interpersonal and presentational modes of communication. Examples of lesson plans and student work from a high school Chinese classroom will be provided.