Middlebury

CHNS 6625

Teaching Chinese Vocabulary

This course combines teaching practice and acquisition theory, and introduces to students the vocabulary of teaching and acquisition in CFL (Chinese as a Foreign Language). Students are expected to understand the basic contents and main features of modern Chinese vocabulary system, as well as some achievements and problems of vocabulary acquisition in SLA (Second Language Acquisition). Emphasis will be on the key points and difficulties in Chinese vocabulary teaching. Through lectures, discussions, and micro-teaching activities, students will enhance their abilities to select appropriate strategies to teach vocabulary, predict and avoid unsuitable usage of words, correspondingly offer understandable explanation to certain errors, and put together vocabulary-teaching exercises.
Subject:
Chinese
Department:
Chinese
Division:
Language School
Requirements Fulfilled:
Pedagogy

Sections in Summer 2012, Mills 7 Week Session

Summer 2012, LS 6 Week Session

CHNS6625A-L12 Lecture (Yang)