"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a
road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."
– Lin Yutang
Help us meet our goal:
10% of students in Washington learning
Chinese by 2015.
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Chinese Language in Washington State
Where is Chinese language taught? Good question!
To find out more, visit our Schools and Programs page.
Chinese Language Exams
College Board > AP Chinese Language and Culture
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_chineselang.html?chineselang
The first AP Chinese Language and Culture courses were offered worldwide in the fall of 2006, followed by the exam in May of 2007. The AP Chinese Exam assesses students' interpersonal communication skills, their abilities to present and interpret language in spoken and written forms, and their functional familiarity with Chinese culture.
Schedule for Professional Development Workshops on AP:
http://www.classk12.org/Files/Announcements.htm#apchinese
For more information about the AP Chinese Language and Culture course and exam in Washington state, contact Adam Ross at Lakeside School in Seattle adam.ross@lakesideschool.org.
Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK)
http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/forlang/chin/
The Chinese Proficiency Test -- 2008 is to be held at Seattle
University on October 18, 2008. The deadline for the registration is
October 6. Vist the following website directly for more information.
http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/forlang/chin/HSK/
Chinese%20Proficiency%20Test%20(HSK).htm
Websites: US
See also:
- Chinese Language Websites (Word)
- WordChamp (in Chinese) (Word)
CAL Discover Languages: Chinese
http://www.cal.org/resources/discoverlanguages/chinese/index.html
The Center for Applied Linguistics offers this article that highlights
characteristics of spoken and written Chinese and talks about the
various dialects or varieties of Chinese spoken around the world.
Chinese K-16 Flagship Program (at the University of Oregon)
http://casls.uoregon.edu/flagship/index.php
The University of Oregon Chinese Flagship program is an exciting
four-year program designed to help students become linguistically and
culturally competent in Mandarin Chinese. Students are able to pursue
degrees in any of the 134 academic programs offered at the University of
Oregon while taking college-level courses in Chinese.
Chinese
Language Programs in American Schools
http://www.askasia.org/chinese/
Asia Society is working with partners in the public and private
sector to address the disparity between our need for more Chinese
language programs in American schools and our current limited capacity.
Sample pages from the website:
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Expanding Chinese Language Capacity in the United States
http://www.askasia.org/chinese/buildingcapacity.htm
What would it take to have five percent of American high school students learning Chinese by 2015?
> Washington State
http://www.askasia.org/chinese/states/washington.htm
A list of schools in Washington state currently offering Chinese language. Please help us keep this current!
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In the News
http://www.askasia.org/chinese/news.htm
A collection of recent news articles about Chinese language in American skills.
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Register
http://www.askasia.org/chinese/register.htm
Sign up here to receive updates from the Asia Society on Chinese language programs and resources.
Chinese
Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools
http://www.classk12.org/
In recent years, CLASS has established itself as a dynamic operational
group and has played a leading role in the improvement of the Chinese
language in the American public and private schools. CLASS is now a
501(c)(3) organization and a member organization of the National Council
of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCT) and the
American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). By
working closely with the Chinese Language Teachers' Association (CLTA),
an organization primary serving post-secondary Chinese teachers, CLASS
has facilitated the articulation process between the pre-collegiate and
collegiate Chinese language learning environment.
- CLASS >
Chinese Language Standards
aligned with the National Standards for Foreign Language
Chinese Language Teacher's
Association
http://clta-us.org/
Our membership is composed of specialists in Chinese language,
literature, linguistics and culture teaching at colleges and
universities throughout the world, but we increasingly count among our
membership teachers of Chinese at primary and secondary schools and
Chinese community schools, as well as students of the language and other
interested parties.
Defense Language Institute Online Chinese Course
http://onlinelearning.lingnet.org/chinese/
The Curriculum Development Division at the Defense Language Institute develops online courses and materials. The Onlinelearning Sustainment and Enhancement Language Courses have already been developed in Arabic, Chinese-Mandarin and Korean. The target audience for these materials is a ILR level 1 to 1+ language learner. The materials focus on improving both listening and reading comprehension up to and beyond ILR level 2. These courses are designed to function as standalone, self-paced programs or as instructor-mediated programs. All in all, each of the three courses rounds out approximately 30-40 hours of online instruction.
Heritage
Language Journal
http://www.heritagelanguages.org/
Volume 4, Number 1, Fall 2006 -- Special Issue on Chinese
We are very pleased to publish this first guest-edited issue of the
Heritage Language Journal, dedicated to issues of concern in Chinese
heritage language teaching and learning. Sunday community schools have
been teaching heritage speakers of many Chinese dialects for
generations. It is relatively recently, however, that universities and
K-12 public schools have realized that there is a compelling need to
develop special programs, typically in Mandarin, for Chinese heritage
students. This issue is the Journal’s first response to the emergence of
Chinese heritage programs, and we anticipate publishing additional
articles in the future as research projects continue to develop.
International
Education and Resource Network (iEARN)
http://www.iearn.org
WANT TO WORK IN CHINESE? iEARN forums enable students and teachers to write in any written language in the world, including Chinese.
IEARN has had a forum for writing in traditional Chinese characters for a number of years http://foro.iearn.org/.ff5f3fa/. There is also a forum for writing in simplified Chinese http://foro.iearn.org/.1e225708/ and in a partnership with World Links and the World Education Corps, teachers from around China are coming together in several workshops to start to use iEARN forums as a place to communicate and engage in collaborative projects in Chinese. Feel free to introduce yourself and talk about project ideas.
Mandarin Tools
http://www.mandarintools.com
These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language. From the novice Chinese language student to the advanced programmer, I hope there is something here for everyone. Rather than being a Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese. Please check out the DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant, Character Flashcards, the Chinese/English dictionary, the Chinese Namer, and the Western/Chinese Calendar Converter.
MSU Confucius Institute
http://ott.educ.msu.edu/confucius/default.asp
MSU Confucius Institute (CI-MSU) was established in collaboration with China Central Radio and TV University under the authorization and sponsorship of China’s National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Its objective is to meet the ever-increasing demand for Chinese education in the U.S., providing quality Chinese learning materials and experience to both K-12 students and adults and helping training qualified teachers of Chinese. Currently, CI-MSU is working on three major projects: podcast of existent video-based Chinese learning materials and daily news, online Chinese courses for K-12 students and adults, and Chinese instructor training program.
Wikipedia > Chinese Language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
Chinese (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: Hànyǔ, 华语/華語, Huáyǔ or 中文, Zhōngwén) is a language (or language family) that forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the people in the world speak some form of Chinese as their native language, making it the language with the most native speakers. Read more...
Websites China
CHENGO
http://www.elanguage.cn/
CHENGO, an online game-based program for beginning Chinese, was developed jointly by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the U.S. Department of Education and is available free of charge to pilot schools.
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