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Pre-service teachers in Professor Harvey's methods course for Chinese language teachers presented their final course projects at the The 22nd New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese: Innovative and Sustainable Approaches to Global Chinese Language Teaching (第22届纽约国际汉语教学研讨会).
Teaching Chinese frequently centers around textbooks with specific topics and characters which do not connect to the real world lives of our students. How can we integrate our students’ lives, histories and Chinese language learning? These panels explore a culturally responsive approach to teaching Chinese language and the history of Asian America through personal histories, narratives, field trips, images, and more. A team of pre-service Chinese teachers from NYU shared materials, lesson plans and resources for teaching Chinese through this approach.
Presentations:
Field Trips, History & Realia: Integrating the World into our Chinese language teaching
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Exploring the Arts, Artifacts and the World in Your Chinese Classroom: From Traditional to Modern
As a class, we took a field trip to see the core exhibit at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA). We also read the New York magazine article Ghosts: Bound Feet, Tea That Burns, a Patriarch who Built Railroads and Carved Dragons, and Other Memories of Old Chinatown by Bruce Hall, and the interactive New York Times article Generation Connie. Students then put together presentations exploring approaches to teaching through these histories and stories.
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