With Chinese now the second-most-common secondary language in America and the most spoken language on the globe, UB’s Graduate School of Education will launch a new program to train a cadre of educators to teach primary and secondary students Chinese language and culture. The new program designed to meet the rising demand to teach Chinese […]
With Chinese now the second-most-common secondary language in America and the most spoken language on the globe, UB’s Graduate School of Education will launch a new program to train a cadre of educators to teach primary and secondary students Chinese language and culture.
The new program designed to meet the rising demand to teach Chinese as a second language will prepare teachers in New York State primary and secondary schools, and in particular those in Western New York.
“Chinese is the No.1 spoken language in the world,” says Dr. Janina Brutt-Griffler, professor of foreign language education and director of the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education. “If you count those people for whom Chinese is spoken as a second language, that number jumps to 1.1 billion.”
Dr. Brutt-Griffler has taken that demand of worldwide proportions, matched it with the UB2020 strategic priority to develop students as global citizens and worked with a colleague, Dr. Erin Kearney, assistant professor in foreign language education, to design the program. The two educators will deliver a program with special emphasis on the local education scene to train teachers perfectly positioned to fulfill this trend.
Source:
Anzalone, C. (2013, August 8). UB program to fill demand for teachers of Chinese. UB Reporter. Retrieved from http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter.html
