Publications on the National Standards

Written for practicing or prospective Chinese language teachers who have no knowledge of the Standards, this article presents background in foreign language education describing important developments such as audiolingualism, communicative competence, and communicative language teaching that contributed to the development of the foreign language Standards. Each standard is described with a brief example from the Chinese language context used for illustration. How the Standards interface with assessment is also explained.

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