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Title: EXPANDING CHINESE LANGUAGE CAPACITY IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON


1
EXPANDING CHINESE LANGUAGE CAPACITY IN THE STATE
OF WASHINGTON
  • International Education
  • Leadership Summit
  • January 30, 2006
  • Shuhan C. Wang, Ph.D.
  • Education Associate
  • World Languages International Education
  • Delaware Department of Education
  • swang_at_doe.k12.de.us

2
Create a Tipping Point for Expanding Chinese
Language Capacity
  • Act when the context is right!
  • Create sticky messages that stay in peoples
    minds
  • Identify and engage mavericks who can be your
    contagious messengers
  • - Malcolm Gladwell, 2000

3
  • The Context
  • Is Chinese a Fad?
  • In a flattened world,
  • a more compelling question would be
  • Why Not?

4
Chinas Economic Power as A New Globalizer
(World Bank, 2002)
  • Now the largest producer of coal, steel and
    cement in the world
  • 2nd largest consumer of energy
  • 3rd largest importer of oil
  • Imports to US have grown by 1600 in the past 15
    years
  • Exports to China from the US have grown by 415
  • China manufacturers 2/3rd of the world copiers,
    microwave ovens, DVD players, toys and shoes
  • In the past 25 years, 300 million people moved
    out of poverty and quintupled the average income
  • Wal-Mart is the largest company in the world
  • Employs 1.4 million people---more than GM, Ford,
    GE and IBM combined
  • Revenues are 8 X that of Microsoft
  • 80 of everything sold in Wal-Mart is
    manufactured in China
  • Economic output of 1.6 trillion is expected to
    triple in the next 15 years
  • Data taken from Newsweek Magazine, "Special
    Report, China's Century." May 9, 2005.

5
Chinas Political Power Engagement with China
is Crucial
  • An emerging superpower of the world
  • A player in balancing international stability
  • A key to the national security of the US
  • An actor to ensure global human security
    challenges environment, health, poverty, human
    rights, migration, peace and so on

6
Chinas Cultural Heritage Enriches Our Lives
  • Worlds longest uninterrupted civilization
  • Literary and artistic traditions
  • Influence on East-Asian philosophy, social
    structure, and ways of being in the world
  • Linguistic influences
  • Culinary arts
  • Scientific and technological inventions
  • Chinese medicine

7
New Initiatives in the U.S.
  • Handbook on Chinese Language Programs (Led by
    Asia Society, funded by College Board) to be
    completed in April 2006
  • K-16 Flagship at the University of Oregon and
    Portland Public School District
  • ChenGo Web- or CD-based Chinese Learning System
    developed by China and the US
  • National Security Language Initiative

8
Create Your Own Sticky Messages
Its All about Framing
  • Increase awareness
  • Make it relevant
  • Create a sense of urgency
  • Make it concrete Success stories speak volumes!
  • - Adapted from Harry Harding (2002) Susan
    Bales (2003)

9
Some Examples of Sticky Messagesfor Language
EducationBiliteracy for All Children
  • Biliteracy is capital in the global funds for the
  • 21st century
  • Language minority children need to acquire
    English, but they also need to maintain their
    heritage language and culture
  • English dominant children need to learn another
    language other than English

10
Why Does the US Need Pluralistic Citizens?
  • Everybody else is learning English a
    double-edged sword for the US
  • Others can understand us, but we cannot
    comprehend them!
  • Know our own language and culture better through
    studying others
  • It is a waste to dry up our rich linguistic and
    cultural resources

11
Language Study Helps Development of
Problem-Solving and Creative-Thinking Skills
  • Linguistic Knowledge of and skill in another
    language Native language becomes concrete
  • Cultural Knowledge of another culture outside
    Europe stronger self- and US-identities
  • Social Pride in being able to learn a
    difficult language Feeling smart
  • Cognitive
  • Tap into multiple intelligences
  • Develop and use better learning strategies
  • Become self-managed and life-long learners
  • Character-Based languages 2-dimensional
    patterning, geometry
  • Relationship with Math (e.g., number values)

12
Start Young and Stay Long
  • Time is needed to build oral proficiency and
    literacy in Chinese/second language
  • Realistic expectations
  • Comprehensive planning
  • Long-term investment

13
So the Context is Right, and there are Sticky
Messages
  • Who Should be the Messengers?
  • You!
  • Create your own quotable!

14
Michael Eskew CEO, United Parcel Service
Education in an Age of Globalization
  • Six traits in future employees at UPS
  • Trade literate
  • Sensitive to foreign cultures
  • Conversant in different languages
  • Technology savvy
  • Capable of managing complexity
  • Ethical
  • December 8, 2005 States Institute,
    LEnfant Plaza Hotel

15
Howard Schultz Chairman, Starbucks
  • China's emerging as one of the centers of the
    world, if not the center of the world.
  • If my kids were of very young ages today, I
    would be asking them, and encouraging them, to
    learn Chinese.
  • - Seattle Times, 12/25/2005

16
Conclusion Can We Tip the Status Quo in the
State of Washington Now?
  • The Context?
  • Sticky Messages?
  • Effective Messengers?
  • Thank you!
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