What is the ActiveChinese Methodology?
The ActiveChinese Methodology combines a dynamic approach to foreign language acquisition with the latest multimedia technology. ActiveChinese promotes an immersive methodology, motivating students to plunge into the material, greatly increasing students’ confidence and individuality in the learning process while greatly reducing teachers’ workloads. Instead of focusing on grammar comprehension and pronunciation correctness which tend to be tedious and in the Chinese language context often daunting, we emphasize building up communication skills right from the outset. In a much shorter period of time, students will be able to use the language as they move along. Confidence build-up and relevance in use are essential in foreign language acquisition. In addition, dialogues following a storyline instead of non-related passages open up students’ imagination which help retain students’ interest. Relatively shorter and simpler structures will also help students memorize the contents, further
