Books & CDs

Discussion

The British Chinese Language Teaching Society

(BCLTS)

Related Organisations

ACTFL

American Council for Teaching Foreign Languages

British Association for Chinese Studies

Cypress Book Co. UK Ltd.

         Cypress Book is a subsidiary of the CIBTC which is the largest exporter of publications in China. Cypress Books distributes books and journals in Chinese, English, and other major European languages.

European Association of Chinese Studies

Web links related to Chinese studies including Chinese language teaching associations in Europe.

French Chinese Language Teachers Association

Web site for French Chinese language teaching activities.

Great Britain China Centre Homepage

          Information on UK China-related activities and scholarships available for students of Chinese.

The International Society for Chinese Language Teaching

China's world organisation for the teaching of Chinese language

Special School Trust

Chinese network page for secondary Chinese language teaching.

US Chinese Language Teachers Association

Much useful information (updated regularly) for Chinese language teachers.

World Chinese Language Association

Website organised by Taiwan for international Chinese language teaching

 

Teaching and learning materials

1. Elementary level
2. Intermediate level

Elementary level

Practical Chinese Reader

Online Chinese language courses

The supplementary materials for New Practical Chinese Reader  are very good and the animated Chinese character writing is suitable for beginners.

Chinese Character Writing Exercise Sheets for Practical Chinese Reader Books 1 and 2.

Chinese word list for PCR chapters 1 through 23

All words are sorted by chapter and found in one single
PDF file. Included are instructions for quickly transforming the word list into a lot of small flash cards.  (only has simplified, though)

Pinyin pronunciation

Chinese Pronunciation Guide

Harvard University Chinese Language web site, which has a good pinyin table. RealPlayer is needed.

Chinese Culture: Language

This site explains how pinyin should be pronounced.

Pinyin Practice University of IOWA

The 'practice' parts may have some technical problems. It has a good Pinyin Chat facility.

Ni Hao  is a basic course for beginning students of Chinese.
It provides students with the opportunity to develop communicative
skills in both spoken and written Chinese at a basic level. Each level of the
series contains a textbook with CD-ROM, a student workbook, a teacher's
handbook, a set of audio cassettes, audio CDs and 'Games' software.

Intermediate level

Clavis Sinica
Clavis Sinica is a new Chinese language learning program developed at the University of Michigan. As an introductory offer,  free copies of Clavis Sinica will be provided for a limited time to the students of any instructor who would
like to experiment with using the program in a Chinese language or literature
course this semester.  If you would like to take advantage of this offer,
please send email to dporter@umich.edu.

Chinese Online Reading Assistant

Reading materials on this site are provided with vocabulary list and notes. Suitable for third and fourth year students.

Language teaching job advertisements

Open University

The Open University is recruiting part-time tutors for new beginners' Chinese course, which starts in November 2009. L197 第一步 Beginners' Chinese will give students the skills they need to speak and understand simple Chinese in everyday contexts. The course will take students through a wide range of practical situations such as socialising, shopping and getting around. Students receive printed and audio materials, and have a dedicated website. This will be a mixture of interactive tools and additional audio and reading material. This course is taught by a blended tuition of online conferencing, face-to-face tutorials and online forums. You will be teaching on average three hours a week.