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| Title | Recent Articles about Teaching Chinese |
| Body | Several articles have been in the popular media lately about teaching Chinese: --- Guest-Teaching Chinese, and Learning America By SAM DILLON New York Times May 9. 2010 Zheng Yue, 27, is teaching Chinese in Lawton — and learning a few things herself about American culture — because of a partnership between an agency of China’s Education Ministry and the College Board. Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/education/10teacher.html?pagewanted=1&src=mv --- Americans must learn to speak bilingually Gene A. Budig Charleston Gazette May 6, 2010 Amazingly, not quite half of today's high school students in the United States are taking a language that is not English, and most of them do not progress beyond the introductory level. China and India, two of the world's behemoths, are aggressively challenging the United States on the volatile economic front. Fortunately, the use of English is common in India. Not so in China. For that reason, more than 300 million Chinese students are learning English and 100,000 of them are studying in America. By comparison, only 50,000 students from this country are booking it in Chinese and fewer than 20,000 are actually studying in China Read the full article at http://sundaygazettemail.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201005060650?page=1&build=cache --- Program uses cyberspace to reach in-demand Chinese instructors. By Kathy Boccella Philadelphia Inquirer May 9, 2010 The cyberspace program, MyChinese360, is believed to be the only Chinese-language course in the United States that conducts real-time lessons via Web cam with instructors halfway around the globe. It's also a powerful example of how schools are trying to prepare students for the global economy of the 21st century, despite a great wall hindering Chinese language instruction in the United States - a dearth of teachers. The demand from American students to learn a Chinese language - barely a blip on the radar screen a decade ago - has exploded in tandem with the South Asian economy. Meanwhile, schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and elsewhere have struggled with the huge gap between this surge and limited numbers of qualified teachers. Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100509_A_new_way_to_study_abroad.html#ixzz0o4TunxIw |
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