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Understanding China Through Media Teaching Advanced Chinese with Multimedia Materials Weisi Cai Lecturer in Chinese Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures BLC Fellowship December 6, 2019 Overvi view o of Todays Pres esen

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Understanding China Through Media

Teaching Advanced Chinese with Multimedia Materials

Weisi Cai Lecturer in Chinese Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures BLC Fellowship December 6, 2019

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  • f Today’s Pres

esen entation

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  • Goals and purpose of this project
  • Design of three modules
  • Showcase of module 3 teaching plan and piloting
  • Students’ learning achievement
  • Feedback from students
  • Self-reflection on this project
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Purp rpose and G Goal als s of

  • f This Proj
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ect

  • Better understanding of current events in China
  • Linguistic competence
  • Ability of conducting research
  • Life-long learners of Chinese language and culture
  • Higher enrollment
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Why Mu Multime media ?

  • Exposure to different genres and registers
  • Different perspectives reflected in different linguistic forms
  • Awareness and interest in a certain topic
  • Visual literacy
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To Topics

  • 1. Language, dialects and writing system
  • 2. Wanghong economy and sharing economy
  • 3. The 2019 Hong Kong protests
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Modu dule 1：Language, Dialects ts a and Wri riting Sys ystem

  • Day 1-3: an academic article

Learning goals:

  • 1. Understand the relationship between languages and their

written forms

  • 2. Learn about the history and classification of Chinese characters.
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Modu dule 1：Language, Dialects ts a and Wri riting Sys ystem

  • Day 4-5: a popular Chinese talk show

Learning goals:

  • 1. Identify and differentiate linguistic features of different genres

and registers

Academic article Chinese talk show

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Modu dule 1：Language, Dialects ts a and Wri riting Sys ystem

Learning goals: 2. Learn about multilingualism in China

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Modu dule 1：Language, Dialects ts a and Wri riting Sys ystem

Learning goals: 3. Know about various languages and their dialects

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Modu dule 1：Language, Dialects ts a and Wri riting Sys ystem

Learning goals:

  • 4. Learn how to defend their own opinions and critique others’

“agree” “disagree” “(parents) insist on teaching children dialects ”

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  • Online discussion

Modu dule 1：Language, Dialects ts a and Wri riting Sys ystem

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Modu dule 2： Wangho hong ng Economy my and Shari ring Econ

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  • my in C

China

  • Learning goals：
  • 1. Knowledge about economic models in modern China
  • 2. Influence of genres on linguistic choices
  • 3. Different registers in different kinds of multimedia materials
  • 4. Research about China in Chinese
  • 5. Different forms of the same cultural phenomenon
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A Chinese influencer ‘s living streaming

Modu dule 2：Day ay 1-2 Wangho hong ng Economy my and Shari ring Econ

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  • my in C

China

Article about Wanghong economy from BBC website

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Modu dule 2：Day ay 3-4 Wangho hong ng Economy my and Shari ring Econ

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China

Student Presentations on Sharing Economy

Self-study materials Instructions for presentations

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Modu dule 2：Day ay 3-4 Wangho hong ng Economy my and Shari ring Econ

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  • my in C

China

Sharing Transportation Mode (e.g. Uber) Sharing Dining Mode (e.g. OpenTable) Sharing Financial Service Mode (e.g. Lending club) Sharing Health Service Mode (e.g. ClassPass)

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  • Discussion about social media:

Pros and cons Comparison of social media in different countries

Module 2：Day 5 5-6 Wangho hong Econ

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  • my and Sharin

ing Economy my in Ch China

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  • Discussion about social media:

Comparison of functions between WeChat and other social media

  • --WeChat red packet culture

Module 2：Day 5 5-6 Wangho hong Econ

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  • my and Sharin

ing Economy my in Ch China

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Module 2：Day 5 5-6 Wangho hong Econ

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ing Economy my in Ch China

  • Discussion about social media:

Learning social media vocabulary and expressions

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests

  • Multimedia materials used：
  • Online articles
  • Videos
  • Social media posts
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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests - Day ay 1

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests - Day ay 1

  • Learning goals：
  • 1. Learn about the protests in Hong Kong
  • 2. Become aware about the influence of social media upon current events
  • 3. Learn how different perspectives affect the choices of words.

e.g. laser pointer: 激光枪(laser gun) on Weibo vs. 激光笔(laser pen) in BBC’s Twitter feed

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests - Day ay 1

  • Learning goals：
  • 4. Learn to determine the information sources by analyzing the perspectives and

linguistic features of the news report VS.

  • 5. Raise students’ awareness on how different news reports use different photos

to reflect their perspectives

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong ng Kong Protests - Day ay 2-3

Article from People’s Daily Article from Voice of America website

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests - Day ay 2-3

Students read two articles and list all the events described in two columns in chronological order

(a student’s work)

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests - Day ay 2-3

  • Learning goals:
  • 1. An awareness of the importance of word choices
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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests - Day ay 2-3

  • Learning goals:
  • 1. An awareness of the importance of word choices

”violent incident” violent; violence ”democracy protest” ”anti-send-back-to-China protest”

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests - Day ay 2-3

  • Learning goals:
  • 1. An awareness of the importance of word choices.

Events missing from the description found in the “People’s Daily.”

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests - Day ay 2-3

  • Learning goals:
  • 2. Students understand that there is no single news report that

will capture all aspects of a current event

  • 3. Students realize that one needs to gather information from

different sources in order to get a relatively complete and

  • bjective description of the event
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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests - Day ay 4

  • Information sharing session:
  • nline research at home

group sharing class presentation

  • Learning goals:
  • 1. Students conduct their own research by using online resources in

Chinese

  • 2. Students reflect their own opinions by selecting and presenting

their research results

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests after-class / / online acti ctiviti ties

  • Video watching 1:
  • Learning goals:
  • 1. Learn how influencers try to influence

people’s opinions

  • 2. Use existing information to support their

answers

  • 3. Use vocabulary from previous readings

to convey their ideas

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests after-class / / online acti ctiviti ties

  • Video watching 2:
  • Learning goals:
  • 1. How various elements in

the multimedia impact audience

  • 2. How people’s gender, age

and personal experience affect their opinions

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests after-class / / online acti ctiviti ties

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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests after-class / / online acti ctiviti ties

  • Response in different roles to a news report
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Modu dule 3：The he 2019 2019 Hong K Kong P Protests after-class / / online acti ctiviti ties

  • Retrieve information
  • Choose from different

registers

  • Decide on content and

language

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Stu tudents ts’ ’ Le Learning Achievem emen ents

News report from student A

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Stu tudents ts’ ’ Le Learning Achievem emen ents

News report from student A

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Stu tudents ts’ ’ Le Learning Achievem emen ents

News report from student A

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Stu tudents ts’ ’ Le Learning Achievem emen ents

News report from student A

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Stu tudents ts’ ’ Le Learning Achievem emen ents

News report from student A

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Stu tudents ts’ ’ Le Learning Achievem emen ents

News report from student B

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Stu tudents ts’ ’ Le Learning Achievem emen ents

News report from student B

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Stu tudents ts’ ’ Le Learning Achievem emen ents

News report from student B

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Feed edback from

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ents

“I like that the materials come from the real world and the language are used in real life. Also, seeing posts from news, Weibo, etc. gives different styles / varieties / registers of language.”

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Self Self-Refl flecti tion

  • Multimedia materials do enhance students’ learning experience
  • Instructors need to carefully select multimedia materials
  • Various activities are helpful to students
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Thank you 