Anna and Lingwei's video diaries
Anna and Lingwei, foreign language assistants from China
Anna and Lingwei spoke to the MFLE in July 2006 about their experiences of teaching Chinese in Scotland.
Anna is a teacher at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. She talks about where she is from and how she starts to teach Chinese to her students. She then goes on to talk about how the students react to the language and its very different system of writing. Learn more about Chinese teaching in our Chinese language special.
Lingwei teaches at Dunbar Grammar School. She talks about the fact that she is one of four Chinese language assistants in Scotland, and the fact that she teaches in different curricular areas, not just Chinese. Learn more about the highlights of a year teaching Chinese in our Chinese language special.
British Council advice
The British Council have also produced advice for using Chinese FLAs in school (courtesy of Meryl James, Perth and Kinross).
Word file: British Council advice on using a Chinese language assistant - 42KB
| Anna's video diary for July | |
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| Description | Chinese foreign language assistant Anna talks about her experiences of teaching Mandarin to students at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. |
| Duration | 3 minutes 10 seconds |
| Windows version |  Windows Media video: Chinese language special - Chinese foreign language assistant Anna Zeng |
| Mac version |  QuickTime movie: Chinese language special - Chinese foreign language assistant Anna Zeng |
| Transcript | Transcript for Chinese language special video - Chinese foreign language assistant Anna Zeng |
| Lingwei's video diary for July | |
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| Description | Chinese foreign language assistant Lingwei talks about her enjoyable experiences of teaching students Chinese at Dunbar Grammar School. |
| Duration | 4 minutes 56 seconds |
| Windows version | Windows Media video: Chinese language special - Chinese foreign language assistant Lingwei Yang |
| Mac version | QuickTime movie: Chinese language special - Chinese foreign language assistant Lingwei Yang |
| Transcript | Transcript for Chinese language special video - Chinese foreign language assistant Lingwei Yang |