A MAGIC METHOD FOR SHORT TERM LANGUAGE LEARNER

Why there are so many students who choose the Sinoland language & culture as their school for learning Chinese in Beijing. How can it be from 30 students annually to 1000 students in 1 year and kept increasing in last 5 years. As a summary, the method is the key.



Here are some history of methods on the second language teaching: (translated from the book《The Guide of Chinese Language Education for Foreigners》 by the famous Chinese scholar Mr. Liuxun. P238-240; P248-251), which is the main theoretical reference of the Sinoland.



The American “audio-lingual method”, another name “military troupes method” carried on main principles of the direct method(Berlitz method).The Berlitz method is a milestone in the course of historical development of second language teaching, and it is the first modern method after the long timed “grammar-translation method”. From methods history, the “direct method” called also “reformed method” or “natural method” appeared at the end of 19th century and remains to the beginning of 20th century in west Europe, mainly in France and Germany. Early representatives of the direct method are: German language educator V.W.Vietor, German educator M. Berlitz and French language educator F. Gouin. The most brilliant achievement is on 1878, Mr. Berlitz created the first language school with direct method or called “Berlitz method”, and up to the eve of the First World War there were already 340 Berlitz language schools in the world. After later “Series method” created by F. Gouin, “Situational Language Teaching” by British language educator H.E.Palmer and A.S.Hornby, and “Reading method” by British language educator M.West, and former Soviet Union’s “self-comparison” method, appeared finally on the 40’s of 20th century, the second big milestone in history of second language teaching: the “audio-lingual method” (on which in Chinese language translated as “listening and speaking method”)created by the famous American linguist: Leonard Bloomfield, (1887—1949) with another linguist, an American-Chinese scholar, Mr. Yuanren Chao (1892～1982).



After years of the implement of this method to Chinese language, the Sinoland provides westerners a proper way to learn Chinese in Beijing, and it obtained successful achievement.



References of the Sinoland to facilitate the Chinese language learners’ tasting:


website:
www.sinolandchinese.com