Harnessing the Potential of Technology in the Chinese Language Classroom: Exciting New Resources

The National Chinese Language

Conference-2010

Laura FranklinAnn Tollefson

Panel Members:

• Dr. Laura Franklin Northern Virginia Community

College

• Ann Tollefson Independent Consultant

Goals of this presentation:

1) To provide ideas for the integration of technology into your program.

2) To point you to a few websites where you can find Chinese materials.

3) To give you an idea of the resources available to you at the NOVASTARTALK site.

Engaging students using technology-

Individualized practice and exploration:

• iTunes Universityexample: Emory University’s

Mandarin podcasts-

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u

• Emory Mandarin podcasts:1) Proper form and stroke order

for several radicals and numbers

2) Practice with tones

3) Pinyin transliteration

Application for iPhone, iPod, and iPAD- $17.99

Cambridge Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary for iPhone, iPod, and iPAD (talking version available!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/chinese

Free BBC Chinese materials:1) A mini-guide to Chinese tones with a Tones Game students can play.

2) A mini-guide to Chinese characters with a Characters Game for students.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/chinese

Free BBC Chinese materials, continued:

3) A beginner’s course: “Real Chinese”

4) Essential holiday phrases- all downloadable and printable

http://nclrc.org/webcasts/ chinese/National Capital Language Resource Center- Chinese webcasts

For Intermediate-mid to Intermediate- high students.

News in Chinese posted twice monthly-

with support materials for vocabulary and post-listening

activities.

http://www.iearn-china.org.cn

International Education and Resource Network- iEARN China

• Project-based learning-linked to schools in China-students do short projects together

http://www.iearn-china.org.cn

iEARN schools in China since 1981: Beijing

ShanghaiHohhotChenduHangzouXianShenzhen

Laura Franklin-NOVASTARTALK

Outside the box…

The Fayette County Model: