m. spring: student achievement in higher ed: evidence from the arizona state university chinese...
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This session, presented in Chinese and English, highlights four students in the ASU Chinese Language Flagship, a multilevel, undergraduate program for students to achieve superior language proficiency while pursuing degrees in the academic major of their choice. The students, each of whom began studying Mandarin in college, offer a snapshot of this innovative program through brief presentations taken from their own course work. Following a brief overview of the ASU Flagship curriculum, the first presenter draws on his study of contemporary social, environmental and ethical issues to pose the question, “Turning the Desert Green: A Sustainable Landscape for the Future?” The second speaker discusses “Feminism in Buddhism,” which is part of her longer research project for a Flagship course on Chinese Religions. The final presenter, who completed the program last spring and is currently a first-year graduate student and teaching assistant, addresses pedagogical strategies for motivating beginning Chinese language learners.TRANSCRIPT
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN HIGHER ED: EVIDENCE FROM THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY CHINESE LANGUAGE
FLAGSHIP
Madeline K. Spring, Program DirectorFlagship Students: Miles Campus, Lana Larkin
Jason Loose, Melissa Tse
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WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE FLAGSHIP?
• Groundbreaking effort to design, support, and implement a new paradigm for advanced language education in the U.S.
• Help create next generation of global professionals, who have a superior level of fluency in a critical language
• Undergraduate and post-BA programs and a limited number of pilot K-12 programs
• On-campus curriculum coupled with a strategy for intensive study at an Overseas Flagship Center
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MULTIPLE PATHWAYS AT STATESIDE PROGRAMS
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DIFFERENT PATHWAYS TOWARD SUPERIOR LEVEL PROFICIENCY
• Flagship Bound – High School Students• Flagship Level 1 -- Students with no background in
Chinese (ILR 0)
• Flagship Levels 2-3 – Students entering at higher levels (ILR 0+ to 2)
• Flagship Level 4 Content-based instruction (ILR 2 to 3)
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OPTIONS FOR ASU UNDERGRADUATES WITH NO
BACKGROUND CHINESE
OPTIONS 3: FOR STUDENTS WITH EXPERIENCE LEARNING
CHINESE
OPTIONS 3: FOR STUDENTS WITH EXPERIENCE LEARNING
CHINESE
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MODEL OF CURRICULAR DESIGN
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CAPSTONE YEAR IN CHINA
• Semester One:• Direct enrollment in domain courses at Nanjing
University• Media Studies and Advanced Composition
courses at Nanjing Flagship Center• Semester Two:• Structured internships in student’s domain• On-line capstone course for ASU credit