The Chinese Teaching Research And Design For Primary Schools In Whanganui New Zealand

The author did an overall survey on the Chinese teaching in Whanganui’s four primary schools and designed a teaching plan for a whole school year based on the results.The research mainly includes:(1)the education background for foreign language teaching(2)primary schools’ features and the general situation of Chinese courses in Whangsnui(3)the learners’ cognitive features,learning motivation and learning stylest(4)learners’ learning behaviors and learning difficulties in Chinese.After literature study,questionnaire survey and interview,the authour believes:(1)In Chinese language teaching,we should adhere to the core of communication,using task-based teaching method,evaluating learners’ abilities in various ways.(2)The Chinese course is mainly for interests and comprehensive Chinese,although lacking of teaching time,MLA has enough freedom in teaching.(3)Learners are mainly in the concrete operation stage,dominated by the general learning motivation and the field dependency learning style.(4)Students are generally willing to involve in the classroom and finish the tasks,but the ability to control their behaviors and emotion is weak.They think that Chinese characters and pronunciation are difficult for them.Aiming at the above characteristics,the design of Chinese teaching in Whanganui’s primary schools should follow:(1)the design framework combines the program planning in Chinese in New Zealand curriculum and ADDIE model(2)Teaching content is based on students’ interest,teaching objectives consider communication as the center,teaching method combines task,theme and games,teaching activities combines group and individuals.(3)The evaluation is mainly based on learning ability and emotional attitude.Finally,it summarizes the innovations and shortcomings of this thesis.