Hi,
You can find the timeline on the Edexcel website:http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/gcse-reforms.html
Modern languages are Phase 2 subjects. First teaching for French, German and Spanish, starts Sep 2016; which means the first examinations for these subjects will be in 2018. If you start teaching GCSE in Year 9, you should start teaching these subjects in Sep 2015. However, we have not got any information for Chinese and Italian yet. I was told by my HoD, these will come a bit later.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,Rong
On Wednesday, 4 March 2015, 9:07, Jerome Gicquel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 8:55 AM
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Subject: Re: GCSE Chinese reform
Hi, Chunlian
I don't think I've seen anything specifically about the Chinese GCSE yet, but it will presumably change along the lines of the French, German, Spanish ones. My colleagues teaching those languages have begun to attend training on the changes so it may be worth your while seeing if your MFL colleagues have powerpoints from their training to share. I know that the key ideas will be more spontaneous speaking for the oral tests, no course work, more 'old fashioned' translation and more use of literary texts. ALL has the following summary on their website:
http://www.all-languages.org.uk/news/news_list/reformed_gcses_in_languages_consultation_launched
TheresaBath
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:25:31 +0000
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: GCSE Chinese reform
To: [log in to unmask]
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I have been asked by my students about the new Chinese GCSE changes.
I am aware that the last examination for current GCSE Chinese is in 2017 June. In 2018 June students will have to take the new GCSE Chinese examination which will contain no controlled coursework.
Could anyone please confirm my understanding is right?
Thanks
Chunlian
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 13:43:04 +0000
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Subject: Re: learn Chinese character creatively
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Dear all
'Character' seems to be the buzz word for today!
Thought I join in with this super cool Character POP: EXPLODE, breakdown and memorisehttp://characterpop.com/
Happy popping!
maggie
On 3 March 2015 at 13:11, shi shuping <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear all
For Chinese learning, Chinese character writing and remembering, might be one of the most difficult parts.Many years ago when I was teaching in Singapore, I asked my students to put their homework on this website, which is regarding how to teach Chinese character creatively. The main idea is: if we can understand what the radicals' original meaning, then the character will not be that abstract any more. Most of the strokes come with meaning. At the same time, we can escape from the original meaning 造字法，but give the strokes an updated or modern meaning, which help students to remember.
Here is an relevant article which explain my idea. The paper was presented in an international conference in Singapore:http://chs-conlang.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/blog-post.html
At the right side of the website, you can see some links which shows my students' assignment regarding how they develop their own method on creative learning, in terms of Chinese characters.Here is one of the examples. You can find them by clicking it from the main page:http://chs-conlang.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/blog-post_19.html
best wishesAnnie Shuping ShiMFL teacher St Mary's Ascot
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 19:05:12 +0800
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Subject: Online Radical Practice
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Dear all
You may find this online radical practice helpful as well: http://www.chtsai.net/radicals/
Regards
Zonghui
At 2015-03-03 08:54:17, "Josh Ma" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear teachers,
Following the GCSE/IB work shop at Dartford Grammar School on Friday, I am attaching to this email the radical practice work sheet I mentioned in the meeting for everyone to share.
Many thanks again to the Chinese teachers at Dartford for organising a useful workshop for teachers of GCSE/IB Chinese.
Hope to see everyone again in the near future.
Kind regards,
Josh Ma
Head of Mandarin Chinese
Second in Public Examinations
Whitgift School
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