1. Untapped Potential: Ratcheting Up the Instruction to Teach Chinese Language in an K-12 Class Yuqing Hong Curriculum Specialist Office of ELLs, NYCDOE

2. Why Chinese? Economic capital Political capital Cultural capital Educational capital

3. New Initiatives in the U.S. National Flagship Language Initiative www.nflc.org/nfl Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP)

4. Overview of Chinese Language Programs in NYC Population Programs Pedagogy

5. Overview of Chinese Language Programs in NYC Population - 16,649 ELLs are Chinese speaking - highly concentrated districts:

6. Overview of Chinese Language Programs in NYC Programs: - Chinese as a foreign language program (FL) - Chinese bilingual program (NLA) - Chinese dual language program (DL)

7. Overview of Chinese Language Programs in NYC 23 22 3 14

8. New York City School Districts

9. The untapped potential: Language features Curriculum Materials Assessment Pedagogy

10. The untapped potential: Pedagogy – Panel discussion - Lily Shen - Marisa Fang - Rita Kwan - Wendy Lin

11. Resources: American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages – http://www.actfl.org http://www.actfl.org Asia Society – http://www.askasia.orghttp://www.askasia.org Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools – http://classk12.org http://classk12.org College Board – http://apcentral.collegeboard.comhttp://apcentral.collegeboard.com The Chinese Ministry of Education and the National Office on the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language – www.hanban.edu.cnwww.hanban.edu.cn Chinese School Association in the United States – http://www.csaus.org http://www.csaus.org National Council of Associations of Chinese Language Schools – www.ncacls.org www.ncacls.org National Council of State Supervisors For Languages – http://www.ncssfl.org http://www.ncssfl.org