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- Title
Promoting Global Relations: How a College of Education promotes Chinese Language and Culture Classes in one Appalachian Community.
- Authors
Thompson, Sherwood
- Abstract
Critical language programs are emerging in school districts across the United States; this new focus on the teaching of critical languages to American students is both progressive and highly needed. This article discusses one Chinese language program that operates in an Appalachian community in Kentucky; that program is the Chinese Guest Teacher Program. This program invites Chinese language teachers to reside in Kentucky in order to teach Mandarin Chinese to both middle grade and high school students. The author discusses how the College of Education at Eastern Kentucky University collaborates with two schools in Richmond, Kentucky to ensure the success of the Chinese Guest Teacher Program. The paper explores how students who are enrolled in Chinese language programs are enriched educationally and culturally. The paper closes with a discussion of the future implications and the new opportunities for the Chinese Guest Teacher Program in Kentucky.
- Subjects
RICHMOND (Ky.); KENTUCKY; CHINESE language; FOREIGN language education; TEACHING methods; HIGH school students; SCHOOL districts; EASTERN Kentucky University; QUALITATIVE research
- Publication
Southeastern Teacher Education Journal, 2009, Vol 2, Issue 3, p123
- ISSN
1945-3744
- Publication type
Article