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 The Characteristics of Chinese Language Curriculum:
KKCS offers Mandarin, Cantonese and combination of Mandarin and Cantonese classes from K-12. The following is the characteristics of KKCS Chinese language curriculum:
1) Holistic approach: KKCS carries out holistic education by which we teach students language while cultivating students’ personality, and facilitating their emotional, moral, and spiritual development.
2) Cultural integration: We believe that foreign language learning is foreign culture learning. Therefore, linking language learning with students’ daily life, our teaching incorporates not only the Chinese culture but also the Western culture into the curriculum.
3) Student-centered teaching: Transforming the traditional teacher-centered teaching to student-centered teaching, KKCS applies theme-based and project-based teaching to the classrooms and teach students through learning with fun, learning by doing, and activities.
4) Immersion learning: As a Chinese heritage school, we use Mandarin or Cantonese to teach students and provide a full immersion environment for students to learn.
5) Accelerated approach: Following the rules of Chinese linguistics and the stages of child development, KKCS developed a theme-based accelerated approach curriculum. Through this approach, students are able to command more than one thousands words in an academic year.
6) Technology assisted teaching & learning: KKCS is very proud of itself for its advanced new computer lab and its technology system in the classroom. The computer-assisted teaching empowers the language learning and makes the class interesting and dynamic.
7) Standard-based learning: KKCS integrates five Cs in Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century into its curriculum. KKCS organized its students to take the first Youth Chinese Test (YCT) authorized by the Official Chinese Language Council International in Beijing in May 2010. Currently, we offer tutoring classes for YCT while we are planning to hold the preparation classes for SAT II Chinese, AP Chinese, HSK, and any other standardized Chinese proficiency tests provided in both China and U.S.A in the future.
8) Two-Chinese character system approach: To facilitate students to better understand the authentic Chinese, we teach students both traditional and simplified Chinese characters at the same time by following a rule of memorizing the simplified Chinese and recognizing the traditional one.
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