Preparing Students for the Advanced Level Language and Cultural Course

1. Preparing Students for the Advanced Level Language and Cultural Course 2014 CLERC Webinar Lesson 2: Effective Teaching Strategies for an Advanced Level Course

2. Goals for Session II(Feb. 15, 2014) Participants will obtain information on effective strategies to teach an advanced level course in the following areas: • Interpersonal communication • Interpretive communication • Presentational communication • Critical thinking and creativity • Argumentative writing

3. A Recap • Higher level proficiency • Content for AP Course • Content for IB Course • 21st Century Skills • Common Core of State Standards

4. Interpersonal: Instructional Strategies • Think-pair-share • Cooperative learning • Jigsaw • Information gap • Problem solving • Interview • Role-play • Open-ended discussion • Debate

5. Higher Level Language Activities • Students discuss/debate on various local/international topics • Students hypothesize, convince, persuade and negotiate meanings • Students defend one’s preferences, feelings, opinions with substantive arguments • Students discuss, analyze and find options to a problem • Students ask for clarification and ensure understanding

6. Interpretive: Instructional Strategies • Pre-reading strategies • During-reading strategies • After-reading strategies • Reading response log • Anticipation guide • Semantic mapping • Think aloud

7. Reading An Authentic Text • “减轻学生课业负担”关键是什么 稿源：红网] [作者：丁绍槐]2/6/2014 学生课业负担为什么会那样重？一个根本的原因是，学生要多学习，才能考得更好。学生是在围绕考好而在努力学习。老师对学生从小就是这样要要求，是因为学校对老师始终就是这样要求的：考得好才是真正的教学水平高。学生考得好老师才能抬得起头来。老师教学是为了学生考好，学生学习是为了能够考好。考试影响着整个教学活动。

8. Reading Activities • Pre-reading activity: • Skimming: • Scanning: • Comprehension questions: • Reflection:

9. PresentationalInstructional Strategies • Prompted writing • Listing • Dialoguing • Clustering • Story narration • Free writing • Use of rubrics

10. Strategies for Teaching Culture • Explore cultural products and their relationship with Chinese cultural perspectives • Explore cultural practices and their relationship with Chinese cultural perspectives • Use Venn diagram to compare and contrast similarities and differences • Ask ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions instead of asking ‘what’ questions

11. Strategies for Teaching Culture Examples • 1)为什么称笔,墨,砚,纸,为文房四宝? • 2)为什么中国人的餐饮礼仪有座位顺序的排列？ • 3) Use a Venn diagram to compare/contrast a Chinese student’s week activities with your own.

12. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

13. Higher Order Thinking Skills • Analyzing: compare/contrast, find trends, identify ideas • Evaluating: convince, judge, critique, rate, recommend • Creating: build, plan, design, invent, imagine

14. Critique these questions and change them into H.O.T.S. questions • 吴伟毕业于什么学校？ • 吴伟毕业以后在哪儿工作？ • 他的工作情况怎么样？ • 这家公司对吴伟的工作满意不满意？ • 他们签合同了没有？

15. Descriptive Writing • Describe people, places, objects, events, activities, feelings, etc. • Use a multi-sensory approach- what one sees, smells, hears, says, tastes, feels etc. • Keep readers interested in the topic, details and events

16. Expository Writing • Explain, describe, give information • Highly organized/sequenced • News articles • Academic research paper • Business reports

17. Narrative Writing • Tells a ‘story’ • Describe an event • Conversational in style • Has a beginning, middle and an ending • Coherent and cohesive

18. Argumentative Writing • Present one’s own position • Explain and cause/effect • Present strengths and weaknesses • Present a counter argument • Persuade the reader to change opinion

19. 谢谢大家！ Wish you