In the process of overseas Chinese language teaching, which is the teaching has no real language environment, the most challenging problem is that there is no purpose context for students who learn Chinese in China to practice what they learned in the class.
For the overseas Chinese language teaching, it would be better to choose English as the intermediate language to teach, besides, teacher should create as more real context as possible in the limited time to help them learn Mandarin. The following are some points should be noticed when teaching.
Generally speaking, one Chinese character has several meanings, so don’t tell your students all the meanings but just the relative one when teach them at Chinese school in China. Or it will cause some confusion in their Chinese learning and fail to remember firmly.
Since majorities of students are in the beginning stage of learning Chinese and haven’t learned much about Chinese, it’s easier for them to understand during the process of learning Mandarin Chinese if teachers explain the contents in English.
In China, many Chinese schools just have the class once a week in Saturday. Even so, the teachers should make good use of some time, especially in the beginning time of entering school, to know more about the students’ Chinese level, some basic situation and relevant backgrounds so as to teach them with proper teaching techniques. What’s more, in order to enhance their interest to learn Chinese language in China, the teachers should make more time to talk more with the students.
There is another way that is helpful not only in their Chinese learning but also upsurge their interest on Chinese school as well as to learn to speak Chinese, that is, to apply some interesting games to the teaching contents.
Actually, there are more resources can be used to encourage them to study Chinese like video. Video is also practicable in Chinese learning, for example, a short Chinese movie or music can be played. Furthermore, some characters in the can be a role play so as to stimulate their learning desire and sense of competition. It will be more effective if there are many students in the class during the role play and the same as to perform by dividing them into groups.
It is always important for teachers to encourage students with certain ways because they need some encourage when they feel it is difficult to learn Mandarin in China. So teacher can give them some proper encouragement at the right time. For example, there may be some perfect pronunciation or beautiful hand-writing. Of course, teachers should encourage them learn from each other.
During the process of learning Chinese, some students may be not familiar with each other because they can meet just in the Chinese language class. Therefore, students have different level of Chinese languagelearning. Therefore, teachers should take the responsibility to urge them to respect each other so as to get a better communication in the class and make Chinese class be a community of them
There are many ways of encouraging students. And the most effective one I think is to give some awards to them. It might be a great help for those who study in China when the teachers buy some prizes for the excellent students in the scores, homework or even those have great progress.
Of course, it is inevitable that there are some students learn slowly even in qualified Mandarin programbecause of different Chinese language levels and cultural backgrounds. Even the excellent students need more encouragement, say nothing of the students learn slowly. We can encourage them even after they made a little progress. This is very important to gain their confidence to learn Chinese well.
There are seven points teachers should pay attention to when they teach overseas students when they study Chinese in China. They can be summarized as to encourage them and gain their confidence to learn Chinese with great interest.
For the students learn Chinese efficiently and with great progress, we should give encouragement. For those have much difficulty in learning Chinese language quickly, we need to encourage more. But the same important thing is to gain their interest to learn Chinese by all possible means.
We said that the most difficult thing to do overseas Chinese language teaching is the lack of the real context of Chinese language. If we can do those mentioned above, we can solve this problem.