Chinese Language and Culture

Taught by Lili Wong

Schedule

Monday, Day 1

Introduction to the AP® Program, Foundation of AP®, College Board® Mission and Equity Statements

1. The AP® Chinese Course

   • Course Description
     • Functions, Content, Skills, Instructional Strategies
   • Course Audit
   • Curricular Requirements

2. The AP® Chinese Exam—ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

   • Test takers distribution (Standard Group and Total Group including Heritage Learners)
   • Format and Specifications
   • Questions and Responses
   • The Scoring Guidelines
   • Score Distributions and Implications

3. Resources for AP® Chinese Teachers

   • AP® Central
     • AP® Teacher Community: a professional learning network connecting AP® Chinese Language and Culture teachers worldwide.
   • Course Overview Module for AP® Chinese

4. Group Activities

   • Summarize the information in the Course Description Excerpt
   • Discuss how these components and goals may be implemented in your AP® Chinese course. What might be the barriers, if any?

Tuesday, Day 2

National Standards and The 5C’s Connection to AP® Chinese Curriculum (Part 1)

1. The Five C’s: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, Communities

2. The three modes of communication

   • Interpretive Communication
   • Working with thematic units
   • Designing learning activities using graphs, maps and audio prompts, such as the listening stimuli in the Multiple Choice questions

3. Using authentic resources and integration of skills

   • Developing written and listening interpretive communication
   • Instructional strategies using audio, charts, graphs, articles, literature, in the AP® Chinese Classroom

4. Group Activities

   • Using the AP® Themes to develop instructional units
   • Design a lesson plan to teach and enhance skills of Interpretive Communication

Wednesday, Day 3

National Standards and The 5C’s Connection to AP® Chinese Curriculum (Part 2)

1. Interpersonal Communication

   • Developing interpersonal writing skills (email response, text messaging)
   • Developing interpersonal speaking skills (face-to-face and telephonic conversations)

2. Presentational Communication

   • Developing presentational writing skills (story narration)
   • Developing presentational speaking skill (cultural presentation)

3. Group Activities (Bring your current textbook and supplementary materials)

   • Members of each group agree on the selection of one typical lesson in a selected textbook
   • Each group will analyze the selected lesson to identify the presence and absence of features found in the AP® Chinese instructional and assessment requirements
   • Make recommendations of changes and modifications to the lesson to adapt it to AP® Chinese instructional content and strategies

Thursday, Day 4

Building an AP® Chinese Language and Culture Program

1. Vertical Articulation of Curriculum: Pre-AP® to AP

   • World Language and Culture Curriculum Alignment Guide

2. Review ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

   • Hallmark characteristics
   • Integrate the National Standards into the AP® Chinese Curriculum
   • Implement AP® Themes in AP® Chinese Course

3. Best Practice:

   • A Lesson Plan of Using AP® Classroom Resources Supported by The College Board®
   • How to Connect AP® Students to the Real World
   • Each group chooses a different theme and designs a project-based lesson plan incorporating three modes of communication

4. Group Report

   • Group activities on Day 3
   • Feedbacks and Reflections