Integrating Technology into the Chinese Language Classroom

Targeted listening to understand important aspects
Straightforward recognition tasks at or just above his or her current level (numbers, colors, dates, actions).
Alternating between viewing and listening to improve weak listening skills.
redundancy between the image and the text so students cam guess and verify meaning most reliably.
Familiar genres and topics
Segments with simple story lines to focus on the main action and encourage them to risk ignoring the difficult detail.
Even difficult programs often contain segments useful for beginning students; don't hesitate to use these short segments with students in the early stages of language learning.
Use segments with simple story lines to focus on the main action and encourage them to risk ignoring the difficult detail.
Programs created expressly for teaching beginners are often designed with built-in repetition to help strengthen listening skills and vocabulary.
Even difficult programs often contain segments useful for beginning students; don't hesitate to use these short segments with students in the early stages of language learning

Transcribe the text of a song and then join in a sing-along.
Have students raise their hands when items from a given category appear in the video; rewind and replay so that all students hear the item.
Have groups each note items from a single category of items, e.g., actions, objects, numbers, and places in the text; follow up by assembling lists on blackboard; option: have each student form a sentence using expressions from at least two categories; erase words as they are used.
Identify words on a list that are English cognates of words used in the text.
Identify verbs on a list that are infinitives of verbs used in the text; supply the conjugated form

Classify elements of the segment by marking or completing a chart.
Complete a partial outline of main points of the segment.
Complete a cloze exercise with blanked-out numbers, key words, easy or difficult words, verbs, nouns, or colors; option: provide list of choices.
Create a complete list of items from a specific category, such as numbers, places, airplane parts, actions seen or mentioned; option: replay and freeze-frame after each item, assembling a list on blackboard.
Enumerate objects or a class of objects presented (students take notes as video plays, instructor then uses blackboard to assemble results).

Indicate the order in which sentences from the text occurred or were uttered.
Indicate the proper order of a list of actions according to when they happened in time or when they were presented in the segment.
Indicate whether statements about the segment are true or false.
Indicate which items on a list are heard and which are seen in the segment.
. Mark multiple-choice questions that closely follow order of the segment.
Predict the action of the next subsegment based on the previous one.

Retell the action of a series of subsegments; specify the tense to be used; replay the subsegment as often as needed for general comprehension.
Stop on an image and describe the scene in order to elicit key vocabulary or structures such as colors, objects; compare people; locate buildings, objects, etc..
Take notes on five to ten main points using a list of key terms.
Transcribe brief subsegments such as conversations.

Video Activities