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Hi! Thanks for everyone's feedback! As I have big groups (25-32), there are a wide range of motivation and learning outcomes. I have to had the teaching pace slower to make sure most students achieve the objectives. But they are all top set students so it is generally ok up to now. I'm preparing them for GCSE with the textbook Chinese for GCSE (Kuaile Hanyu). I add the vocabulary based on the new GCSE specification. I'm wondering if it is better to follow Liming's approach doing some formal exam to give them greater 'push'. But as Linda said the points of Asset would be cancelled when they enter for GCSE, and I'm not sure whether Asset breakthrough to intermediate levels match well to GCSE specification. Any suggestion? regards, Hanghang Huang On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:12 PM, L. Barrett <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Hello: > > Our school start to teach Mandarin from Year 9. Students have 3 periods a > week and 40 minutes per periods. Class size is about 6-8. I use Chinese > for GCSE as our textbook and I add in extra words from Asset Languages > vocabulary list and extra expressions. At end of Year 9, students have to > take asset languages breakthrough stage 4 skill tests as their formal end of > year assessments. > > Our first 12 students took Asset Languges Breakthrough tests in May. The > results were quite encouraging. 5 boys got two Grade 2 and two Grade 3. The > other seven boys got 4 Grade 3. (Grade 1-3 breakthrough stage). > > Today, eight Year 10 boys just finished the Asset Languages Preliminary > Stage tests. They have studied Mandarin for 15 months. We will get the > results back at the end of January. I think some boys can get Grade 4 or > even Grade 5. > > My personal opinion is to use Asset languages as a preparation tool for > GCSE. As you have to prepare your students 4 skills from very early stage. > It is a very good practice and students take the exams very seriously. > > At the same time, our students use Gochinese to prepare for their Asset > Language Speaking and Listening test. I leave the listening material on > Gochinese platform and students can get access to it and listen to the > questions whenever they want to. > > Hope that is helpful > > Liming Barrett > > _____ > > From: Mandarin Chinese Teaching on behalf of Hanghang Huang > Sent: Wed 03/12/2008 14:01 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Go Chinese or Asset Languages? > > > > > Most of my students are aiming for GCSE and they just started Mandarin this > Sep. So I won't consider certificates or qualifications until they are Year > 9, when some of them may drop GCSE Mandarin. In that case they may enter for > other qualifications. > > But I'm using Gochinese to support the teaching and learning with my > groups. It is good resource if your students have good access to internet > and are motivated. It works perfect for IE explorer (windows system) but for > Mac system your students need to operate it in a specific version of > Firefox. > > I helped some students to prepare for Asset breakthrough earlier this year > for a while, but didn't take them all the way to the exam cause it was only > cover work. Personally, I think writing is a bit demanding if students do > not practice writing in characters from the very begining. > > Can any one in the forum share your experience with Asset exams? I would > like to know more as well. > > Thanks! > > > Hanghang > > > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Ruiyan Tan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Thanks Hanghang and Theresa. Very helpful information. Huanghang, do your > students take the ABC awards or Business Chinese supported by GoChinese? > > Regards > > Ruiyan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _____ > > Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:25:53 +0000 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Go Chinese or Asset Languages? > > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Hi! > > I think for Gochinese you don't need too much guiding time as students can > get access to the course freely in and out of school with support (online), > and most assessment can be handled internally. Assest may include more > teaching guide, but there are several levels you can choose from. Besides, > Gochinese focus on speaking and listening (not much reading and writing), > and Asset includes 4 skill tests. > > Hope it helps. > > Hanghang Huang > > On 11/28/08, Ruiyan Tan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi all > > I am teaching Enrichment for year 12 and 13 and trying to find out how they > can get accredited (some of them might progress to GCSE but most won't). > They only do a 2 periods session a week, about 90 minutes. Some teachers > recomend Go Chinese and Asset Languages. Can anyone tell me which one is > better? how they work? How many guiding hours are needed? How much do they > cost? > > Many thanks. > > Ruiyan > > > _____ > > Click here for FREE customisable desktop wallpapers. Get them Now! > > > > _____ > > Take your friends with you with Mobile Messenger. Click Here! > > > > > > > This e-mail has been scanned by Hampton School's Email Content Control > systems. 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