Teaching of Mandarin as Secondary Language (L2 )

1. Setting a high benchmark for the students. 

It is hard to separate the ideas of this topic with the previous one,  as every component in teaching is inter-related and overlap when it comes to children development.

I am currently working in a day-care and tuition centre. My job scope including homework coaching and giving tuition to the primary level students. The duration for dealing with their homework and tuition can span between 3 to 4 hours depends on students’ self efficacy, understanding of the subject matter and teacher’s approaches.

My students speak English as the first language, however pursuing a primary education in Chinese-medium school. Consequently, they require less drilling in English but having significantly lower self-efficacy in learning Mandarin.

Along the journey, I would try to encourage them. Below are some of my attempts. Feel free to share with me if you have any other better approaches.

1.   1.  Since Mandarin is about language. Students are learning from the textbook. There are stories about the Chinese Culture, and I made it attractive to anticipate the learners into their content.  In order for them to know more about the content, they would have to understand more Chinese words to understand it. This works the same as having them to read a Chinese comic with  interesting storylines.