Building Language Interest, Confidence, Motivation and Skills: Supporting Struggling Students by Using Focused Small Groups to Differentiate Instruction

BUILDING LANGUAGE INTEREST,CONFIDENCE, MOTIVATION AND SKILLS:SUPPORTING STRUGGLING STUDENTSBY USING FOCUSED SMALL GROUPS TODIFFERENTIATE INSTRUCTION Chiungwen Chang Chinese American International School

IntroductionAbout me- Wen ( 張瓊文）- Chinese Language Support (CLS) teacher- 4 years at CAISAbout Chinese American International School (CAIS)- Founded 30 years ago- Chinese-English immersion school in San Francisco- First school of its kind in the U.S.- Pre-k through 8th grade- Around 500 students- 50-50 immersion from Pre-k through 5th grade

Agenda Purpose Introduction Case Study Resources

What is the most challengingthing in teaching Chinese?

Have you ever felt like this? Why are my students losing motivation in Chinese learning? I have students who are struggling in Chinese learning. What do I do? How can I find the best way to help students efficiently with limited time?

Chinese Language Support @CAIS Small Group Instructions Grades 1-8 Open CurriculumGoal: To assist students build up Chinese language proficiency

How does CLS work at CAIS? Evaluate (1-2 weeks) Design (1 week) Execute (Rest of school year)

Evaluate Potential students Go over the assessment taken place in the first week of school year with home room teachers Collect data Observe class Determine students

Design Determine focus Set goals Define plans Design schedule

Execute: Record keeping Sample Schedule for progress Schedule Goals Feb 1 Feb 4 Feb 8 Feb 11What to achieve Recognize Radicals intro Draw flash Drills & Drills & characters Radicals cards Games Games game Character ✔ Drills ✔ ✔ ✔ Using the Use flash Use flash Use flash character to cards for cards for cards for make phrases ✔ phrases ✔ phrases ✔ phrases Use new Stories & Stories & vocabulary games to games to to make reinforce ✔ reinforce ✔

Execute: Student self- evaluation Sample RubricsGoals 100% Be able to use the Be able retell the Speaking Chinese following sentence story(畫蛇添足） in the session ! patterns correctly. using new phrases 除了… and sentence 得…才能…. patternsI not only did it but ✔also challengemyself using wordsnot in this lesson.I did it! ✔ ✔I almost did it!

Agenda Purpose Introduction Case Studies Resources/Appendix Q&A

Case study 1 Area to focus: Character Recognition 認字 Name： Caiden Grade: 1st Grade Difficulties -Had difficult time remembering Chinese characters - Hard to build up his own Chinese vocabulary -Get confused with Chinese characters that sound similar ( EX: 象像相想香）

Activity 1Introducing radicalsGuess Who! 每個中文字有部首請問它有沒有___? 拍像想跑吃眼

Activity 2Introducing radicals with picturesI draw, You guess! + = 像 + = 問

I did it! - Positive Reinforcement Students do self-evaluation

Activity 4Drill, Drill, Drill! There is no easy way to remember Chinese characters. Activity: Count down! 震撼教育！

Activity 5Dealing with confusion Draw and talk! Draw a picture that matches each character

Activity 6 Dealing with confusion Make connections between pictures and characters

Activity 7Chinese Tongue Twister象像想香相的練習大象看到香蕉的相片想吃香蕉，想不到，吃到自己的長鼻子，是象鼻像香蕉，還是香蕉像象鼻？你想一想！

Activity 7Chinese Tongue Twister隻, 只, 知, 直的練習我知道老師有十隻蜘蛛和十隻豬叔叔只有四隻蜘蛛和四隻豬我還知道豬的腳長得直直的但是蜘蛛沒有直直的腳

Case study 2 Area to focus: Speaking 說 Name： Zoe and Zoella Grade: 4th Grade Difficulties - Not able to speak in complete sentences with limited vocabulary and sentence patterns - Using English structures when speaking Chinese - Low confidence in speaking Chinese

Speaking Chinese is fun! Communication drillA: 我得把功課做完，才能出去玩。 …….B : 這枝鉛筆根本不是你的。

Agenda Purpose Introduction Case Studies Resources

Resources iPad Applications - SonicPics -Puppet Pals -Educreations Books - Struggling learners and language immersion learners by Tara Fortune and Mandy Menke- Critical Issues in Early Second Language learning/ Building for Our Children’s Future by Nyriam Met

Thank you！謝謝！c_chang@cais.org Chiungwen Chang

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