Chinese Language Curriculum

Teaching Chinese Language in Putonghua

• Full adoption of school-based pinyin materials for all levels;

• Use of multi-dimensional activities (e.g. radio drama, speech and drama, interview) to create language environment to nurture students’ listening and speaking skills;

Reading as the backbone to the teaching of “reading”, “speaking”, “listening” and “speaking”

• Reading as the key line; listening and speaking as the prerequisites to writing;

• For junior levels, “Writing while speaking” is the main theme; for upper levels, “Read-write convergence” is developed;

• Reading strategies and thinking skills are developed through reading lessons;

• Stress on standard language to nurture linguistic sense;

• In addition to extensive reading, we promote the reading of “assigned books”

Nurturing self-learners

• Pre-lesson preparation;

• Note-taking during lessons;

• Make better use of electronic teaching platforms for learning development;

• Use of tool books