Teaching Chinese speaking skills By YUE MING

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Teaching Chinese speaking skillsBy YUE
MING
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Introduction

• Speaking is an important aspect in learning
  language
• My personal experience in learning foreign
  language
• Many students struggle in their pronunciation and
  
• fluency
• What kind of teaching method is better to help
• students improve their short term speaking
  skills?

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Purpose

• Which method will help learners understand
  context better and promote them to speak as well
  as possible in real situations?

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Two sides teaching method

• Traditional Chinese teaching methods
• Technology based teaching aids

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Side One Traditional Method

• Mechanical memorization without any technology
  teaching aids
• Advantage the students can recite the text
• Disadvantage they cant apply their learning to
  associate with their past knowledge

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Side two New teaching Method

• Use the visual aids as supplementary to help
  learners to understand the content
• Advantage students can apply their learning in
  the real situation
• Disadvantage will visual aids affect
  pronunciation?

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Methodology

• Made survey
• Selected 18 students at beginning level
• Divided into two groups
• Gave the same paragraph and vocabulary list to
  each group

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Methodology

• One group uses traditional method, the other uses
  technology-based method
• Test how much they understand the paragraph
  through three aspects
• Pronunciation
• Accuracy
• Fluency

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Methodology

• I take the average score
• Compare two groups final average score, the
  highest score can be adopted as the better
  teaching method

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Results
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Problem

• The pronunciation is not obviously different from
  two groups.
• Two groups have same problems with some certain
  words.
• For example zou lu (to walk)
• henxihuan (like to do)
• chuquwan (go out to
  play)

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Conclusion

• The new method with the pictures helped learners
  to understand the text better
• The new method helped students apply their
  learning into real situation rather than the
  traditional method
• Especially reflect in accuracy and fluency

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Future Work

• Test this method in one or two semester
• How to help students improve their pronunciation
  in short term
• If the teacher cant find proper visual aids,
  what kind of method should they adopt to help
  their learners, still keep the traditional
  method?