Date of Award
5-2013
Degree Type
Report
Degree Name
Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT)
Department
World Languages and Cultures
Committee Chair(s)
Li Guo
Committee
Li Guo
Committee
Karin de Jonge-Kannan
Committee
Maria Luisa Spicer-Escalante
Abstract
This portfolio is a completion of the author’s work through the Master of Second Language Teaching program. The portfolio contains the author’s teaching philosophy, reflection on the author’s teaching and that of others, three artifacts, and an annotated bibliography. The teaching philosophy discusses what the author believes constitutes effective language teaching, such as a learned-centered classroom, communicative language teaching, and effective assessment. The artifacts are papers wrote for the MSLT courses to support the author’s teaching philosophy. The literacy artifact emphasizes the importance of reading and writing in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The culture artifact explores lesson plans that raise learners’ culture awareness. The language artifact investigates the impact of living in the country where people speak the target language. At the end, the annotated bibliography includes books and articles that influenced the author’s teaching beliefs and practices.
Recommended Citation
Chen, Wenrui, "Breaking Tradition: My Journey of Becoming a Teacher of Chinese as a Foreign Language" (2013). All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023. 268.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/268
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