Objectives
- Improve students' abilities in reading, writing, listening, speaking, thinking, aesthetic appreciation, and self-learning.
- Cultivate students' interest in learning Mandarin Chinese, good learning attitudes and habits.
- Enhance students' language proficiency and their understanding of Chinese culture.
- Provide more opportunities for students to practice Mandarin communication, to enhance their abilities and confidence.
Features of the curriculum
- Emphasize the close connection between knowledge, common skills, values, and attitudes.
- Value phonics instruction: starting from first grade, progressively teach students Chinese phonetics to lay a foundation for their reading and pronunciation abilities.
- Focus on student-centered learning: Teachers create situations for students to practice Mandarin communication through classroom and extracurricular activities, experience the joy of learning, apply what they learn, and set their own learning goals.
- Value practical opportunities for students: provide and organize various activities and competitions to promote students' communication abilities in two languages and three dialects.
Highlights of the activities
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Mandarin Chinese Day: students are playing booth games.
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Mandarin Chinese Day: students are wearing ethnic costumes and dancing.
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Public Speaking and Recitation Class: students are interpreting the works with emotion.
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Public Speaking and Recitation Class: students won top three places in the inter-school Mandarin recitation festival.
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Students visit the New City Radio Station to record and perform radio drama stories.
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Chinese Culture Day: students wear Chinese costumes and learn calligraphy.
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Chinese Culture Day: students make shadow puppets to learn about Chinese culture.