The Chinese for Families project
Jiale Zhongwen’s “Chinese for Families” started in 2008 with one small class of children aged 4 to 5 and an action research question: “How much can children with little or no Chinese language knowledge learn in a one lesson a week language program?” Almost immediately it became evident children with little or no Chinese language […]
Chinese: A great language for Australian young people to learn
Jude and Lewis have been regular students at our Chinese for Families classes for a number of years. Many thanks to their grandfather Larry Owens Emeritus Professor of Education from Flinders University (known to us as Larry) for writing this review of our classes. I became interested in Chinese language as a result of work […]
Teaching Chinese in the sunshine – finding the keys to unlocking students’ potential
This blog post is about the learning journey of teachers. In particular it is about my learning journey at Chinese for Families , now in its twelfth year of operation. Many thanks to all who have supported me in this journey. There is a famous Chinese idiom about a frog who lives in a well. […]
