Chinese Learning
Hello everyone 你们好,
I hope the new school year has started off very well for you. I know that all of you are very busy but I hope you will help me. As I have been working on curriculum, lesson plans and teaching methodology in the Chinese classroom I would like you to respond to the following hypothetical situation.
The situation concerns two foreign language classrooms in a high school, ninth through 12th grade; one classroom is a Spanish language classroom the other is a Chinese language classroom. Let’s assume that everything is equal between the two classrooms, the students are equal in background, motivation, intelligence and education and the teachers are the same in knowledge, education, and background and use exactly the same world language teaching methodology and pedagogical techniques to teach and to instruct. After two years of study would the students test out to the same level of proficiency in each of their respective languages? In other words, let’s say, as a example, the Spanish students after taking Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 have a proficiency level of “novice high/ level III”. Would the Chinese students after taking Chinese 1 and Chinese 2 have the same proficiency level “novice high/ level III” as the Spanish students?
Please share with me your best educated guess opinion and thoughts on whether after two years of foreign language study in Spanish and in Chinese students should have the same proficiency level.
Do you agree that the level would be the same and why you believe it would be the same?
Or
Do you disagree that the level would not be the same and why you believe it would not be the same?
Thank you for taking the time and effort to respond. The information will be very important to me and what I am working on concerning the teaching and learning of the Chinese language.
I also have this on SurveyMonkey.com http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=dg1w3MZSu8tgZ6vxMfA_2fmA_3d_3d
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