英文摘要 |
The professional competencies a Business Chinese teacher should have include: 1. the ability to explore the need of a learner; 2. the ability to develop customized curriculums; 3. the ability to understand or acquire professional business knowledge; 4. the ability to teach Business Chinese; 5. the ability to compile business situated materials. This study focused on preparing Business Chinese teacher trainees for the third, fourth, and fifth competencies mentioned above. Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is an integrated perspective based on the idea that only emphasizing both language system and its content can improve learners??developments together. Bauman (1998) shows that the Internet can provide Business English teachers with real materials for planning courses. Many people learn language from teachers and textbooks, while the Data-Driven Learning (DDL) is a method of learning foreign language through utilizing authentic materials. It takes language as data and suggests that students be instructed by teachers to input authentic materials for learning language. This is a method focusing on the process of learning. The project reported in this paper combines the CBI and DDL and applies them to Business Chinese teacher education, aiming at developing teacher trainees' abilities of teaching Business Chinese and compiling learning materials based on authentic materials. The subjects are teacher trainees in a Business Chinese course at a university in northern Taiwan. The goal is to establish a training procedure containing cognition, practice and reflection through knowledge input and practice. It is hoped that the teaching model constructed will be applied to Business Chinese teacher education and the Business Chinese teaching method developed in this study can be applied by school teachers to design materials. |