Donald’s Chinese Class
(轻松普通话学习/唐纳德中文班)
Qualified Tutor
· 4 years Chinese language major graduate from Xiamen University with 10 years’ book publishing house Chinese literature editor experiences
· Graduate with UCOL Teaching Certification
Learning and Teaching Approaches
· Small groups/Various levels
· Very affordable price
· Campus learning (Lectures/Tutorials) with interactive activities such as video clips, presentations, group works, role players etc.
· Web based learning (Moodle with interactive learning on line)
· Self-directed learning (home works or exercises)
Course Aim: To enable students to acquire and demonstrate entry/upper level of listening，speaking，reading and writing capabilities of Mandarin.
Course Options:
· Free Chinese learning Course (Introduction Course)
· Comprehensive Chinese language (Mandarin) Course
· Life Chinese Training Course (Basic Chinese for Travelers & Business People)
· HSK Chinese courses (Help learners to sit in China's National Standardized Test)
· NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement) Chinese level course
· One Personal Counseling (20/40/80 hours)
At present I am a Chinese language teacher in Palmerston North community and E-learning Consultant on Internet with over 2 years’ Chinese language teaching experience.
I was rewarded a B.A. degree major in Chinese language and literature by Xiamen University of P. R. China. After graduation, I had worked for a state-owned publishing house as an editor for over 10 years in P. R. China.
Presently I have acquired relevant education qualification and certification from UCOL with a sound knowledge of current practice and a repertoire of strategies to use in teaching and learning, assessment, programme design and teaching practicum. These elements contribute benefits to me to deliver qualified teaching tasks in New Zealand.
Basing on the purpose of teaching practice and personal interests, in the last two years, I operated a free Chinese language teaching/learning project in UCOL, Massey and City library voluntarily.
The Chinese (Mandarin) learning class in UCOL 7-1-01 (2105/10/30)
This class is welcomed by local community people and it gets many achievements as following:
· Enabling students to acquire basic listening， speaking， reading and writing capabilities of Putonghua (Mandarin) through a theoretical and practical earning and training exercise;
· Enabling students to approach Chinese culture and have a solid ground for their further study of Chinese language;
· Utilizing multiple-intelligence education strategy and student-center teaching philosophy to teach students with different nationalities and various ages;
· Enabling relaxing and motivated class atmosphere to encourage students participating in the interactive learning of group tasks, discussion group, role players to increase efficient learning productivity;
· Encouraging effective communications among pupils with various culture backgrounds to give and receive feedbacks in order to reflect their learning outcomes and learn from each other’s previous experience;
· Integrating instruction and practice, learning and application as well as creative and innovations have been incorporated in the course;
· Pleasant study feelings and learning fun are introduced into the class.
My teaching philosophy guide my
teaching tasks as following:
· I believe, teaching tasks are like opening a door for the students instead of merely leading them through the door.
· I believe, it is important to create an atmosphere where the learners feel comfortable to exchange ideas and discuss feelings about the issues raised through activities.
· I believe, a good teacher will do as a lighthouse to guide the students steering on the right channel to achieve their definite goals.
· I believe, it is essential to use multiple teaching ways to enhance students to understand lesson contents and teaching objects.
· I also believed, good teacher always keep learning along with their teaching. Ongoing teacher development is important and essential.
· I believe that people learn from each other, so I always encourage learners to give and receive feedbacks to achieve improvements collaboratively.
At present, a budding interest in learning Chinese in NZ reflects a growing awareness of community people and students’ benefits. The enthusiasm of the students reflects a marked cultural shift in attitude towards the importance of Chinese language, as more people in NZ and the Manawatu region travel to China for work, business and leisure. As Chinese becomes more and more important and popular language across the world and NZ government also has realised it, I am sure NZ business people, students and local community people would benefit a lot from my training course.
Following are some of learning comments from our learners:
Donald is a patient and skilled teacher with high work ethics. I had never learned Chinese before starting to take his lesson.
It has been three months since I received a personal one-to-one session which is perfectly tailored to my situation and needs.
Given the quality of his teaching, fees are very affordable and I am very happy about the progress I have made so far.
Jeong P. (Senior lecturer at Massey University)
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Hi Donald,
I am going back Indonesia on beginning Dec for holiday. Thank you for the class. I always had wonderful learning with you as a teacher.
I wish that everything is well with you and family. Have a happy holidays in advanced. Take a good care and be safe!
Kind Regards,
Eva
26 Nov 2015
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Hi Donald,
I will be going back to my country soon as I have finished all my exams. So, I won't be able to attend to your mandarin lesson anymore because I have a lot of stuff to be settled down. Thank you for teaching me mandarin, it was such a good experience. I hope you gain some experience while teaching me. Good luck for your career!
Ain/11/7/14
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Happy there is enough as u r a great teacher. Regards Odette
Odette Abrams/Oct 27, 2015
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If you would like to contact me for more details for the course, please email to:
jetblue1122@hotmail.com
Cheers/Donald
Teaching purpose
· To enable students to acquire basic listening，speaking，reading and writing capabilities of Putonghua (Mandarin/Chinese) through a process of learning and practicing;
· To expose students to Chinese culture and lay a basic culture ground for their further study of Chinese language and culture.
Life Series of Chinese Courses include live Chinese, Chinese shopping, Chinese dinning, Chinese banking, Chinese accommodation, Chinese transportation, Campus Chinese, Chinese housewives, Sports Chinese, Chinese in computers. In short fun features, to provide a rich curriculum for learners.
Life Series of Chinese Courses can make learners to learn Chinese by conversations contents. Also the course teaches Chinese language and cultural knowledge which is essentially required to travel in China to help students overcome the language barriers of culture, transportation, accommodation and other major issues which Chinese tourism encounters.
Conditions applied:
This is a minimum charge class. At least 3 students required for each group.
Please email me (jetblue1122@hotmail.com) to contact enrollment before your start this class.
Cheers/Donald
This course aims to enable students to acquire and demonstrate entry level of listening，speaking，reading and writing capabilities of Putonghua (Mandarin/Chinese) through a process of learning procedures and off campus practicum.
The course contents are divided into five sections as following:
Chinese Pinyin pronouncing and spelling Section
Chinese Characters and Words Section
Chinese Grammar Section
Chinese Conversion Section
Chinese Culture Section
Conditions applied:
This is a minimum charge class. At least 5 students required for each group.
Please email me (jetblue1122@hotmail.com) to contact enrollment before your start this class.
Cheers/Donald
The Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) is China's national standardized test designed and developed by the HSK Center of Beijing Language and Culture University to assess the Chinese language proficiency of non-native speakers (including foreigners, overseas Chinese and students from Chinese national minorities).
According to the new HSK (written) of listening, reading, writing requests, summarize, classify the HSK words to help students to learn the system in a certain amount of words on the basis of teaching grammar, which combined with the large number of exercises and solve listening, reading, writing several aspects of the problem, to rapidly improve HSK test scores.
Curriculum: Reading, listening, writing, speaking and practice exam
Training objectives: to strengthen examination skills, improve test scores;
All true simulation test, experience examination process.
Conditions applied:
This is a minimum charge class. At least 3 students required for each group.
Please email me (jetblue1122@hotmail.com) to contact enrollment before your start this class.
Cheers/Donald
This course aims to enable students to acquire and demonstrate relevant NCEA level (New Zealand High School) of listening，speaking，reading and writing capabilities of Putonghua (Mandarin/Chinese) through a process of learning procedures.
Conditions applied:
This is a minimum charge class. At least 3 students required for each group.
Please email me (jetblue1122@hotmail.com) to contact enrollment before your start this class.
Cheers/Donald
Every class takes around 80 minutes (including a short break), one end of the course and the teacher can make an appointment the next course of time.
With professional teachers one on one learning Chinese. Entirely dominated by learners’ own time, effective use of time, high efficiency study pure Chinese.
Tailor Chinese courses for individual needs of students, occupational characteristics, interest in life, Chinese extent, with efficient exclusive lesson plans, HSK personalized learning Chinese will make students rising to new heights.
Conditions applied:
This is a minimum charge class. Every class fee is $20.
Please email me (jetblue1122@hotmail.com) to contact enrollment before your start this class.
Cheers/Donald
20 hours lessons can be learned everyday conversation, common working language, written in simple Chinese characters, 100 Chinese characters, words and expressions, 25 grammar points.
40 hours can be learned everyday conversation, common working language, written in simple Chinese characters, 200 Chinese characters, words and expressions, 50 grammar points.
80 hours to learn the depth of everyday conversation, the more complex the working language, the middle level of writing Chinese characters, 1500 characters, words and expressions, 200 grammar points.
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