{"id":16957,"date":"2020-05-11T18:57:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T10:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=16957"},"modified":"2020-05-18T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:45:08","slug":"stuck-in-the-same-chinese-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2020\/05\/stuck-in-the-same-chinese-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggle in Chinese Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Photo courtesy of South China Morning Post (SCMP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1155109413_V3_01052020-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reporter: Patricia Ricafort<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong does not have a Chinese as a Second\nLanguage, or CSL curriculum. Instead, schools can design their own curricula\nbased on guidelines set by the Education Bureau. While some see the flexibility\nin curricula design as an advantage, others believe that the lack of a\nstandardised curriculum prevents non-Chinese students from progressing in their\nlevel of Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabrielle Bas is a Hong Kong-born Filipino. Although she learned Chinese in a local school, she still feels that she cannot speak Chinese properly and that has affected her search for an internship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Loretta Tam is a researcher at the Centre for Advancement\nChinese Language Education and Research (CACLER). She recognises that the\nflexible CSL curriculum caters to the diverse needs of learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandy Cheuk is a project manager of Hong Kong Unison, an NGO which caters to the needs of ethnic minorities. She believes that the lack of standardisation in CSL curricula prevents ethnic minorities from improving their Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor: Howard Li<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The absence of a standardised Chinese as a Second Language curriculum (CSL) for Non-Chinese Speakers (NCS) raises concerns over their progress in learning Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1477],"tags":[47,52,1432,732],"class_list":["post-16957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia","category-podcast","tag-education","tag-ethnic-minorities","tag-non-local-students","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16957"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17061,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16957\/revisions\/17061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}