A Case Study about Accuracy and Fluency in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

DOI

10.2991/icsste-16.2016.139How to use a DOI?

Keywords

accuracy, fluency, speaking, TCSL

Abstract

This case study aims to address how to promote accuracy in the main stream of focusing on fluency. During the period of data collecting, face to face interviewing is used to get some ideas about the relationship between accuracy and fluency when students learning Chinese from Chinese teachers in one Hong Kong International School. Observing in the real classes is also used to collect the teaching strategies when they put their ideas into practice. After sorting the relative data, the average result is that around half of the teaching activities are about accuracy, while there are more fluency-oriented activities in the higher level classes. As for the teaching methods, focusing on form is the most popular, but focusing on forms is also not ignored. When correcting the errors, correcting directly, indirectly correcting such as repeat the error and interaction modification are utilized a lot in the classes.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mengke LI
PY  - 2016/05
DA  - 2016/05
TI  - A Case Study about Accuracy and Fluency in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Social Science and Technology Education (ICSSTE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 761
EP  - 769
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icsste-16.2016.139
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