Fun with Chinese: Enhancing language development for South Asian ethnic minorities
The project aims at enhancing about 20 South Asian Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) students' learning of Chinese Language, promoting teachers' professional knowledge in teaching Chinese as a second language as well as enhancing NCS parents' understanding about Chinese Language learning through implementing the Chinese mentoring activities and parent-child reading programmme for NCS students as well as organising professional development workshops for teachers of the applicant school. The learning and teaching resource material, a glossary of Chinese and Urdu terms and at least 10 Chinese and South Asian Language bilingual story books will be produced in the project.