Tuesday, August 16, 2011

language learning and children's lit

Ever since I started to teach Chinese at a local Chinese school, I have been looking for appropriate books that can best teach the Chinese school. I think as far as for finding children's literature for educational purposes, it is always hard to find the RIGHT one. Every books has a purpose and every teacher is targeting to find different books. There are all different kinds of literature out there written and designed for different reasons. However I have never really found a one that as all of the elements that I am looking for. After a few years of search I have come to an realization that the best way to may be to write a book myself some day in the future.

Most of the books that I have found were written and designed as textbooks. In another words, it was hard to find language learning books that could really be consider as literature. However, it might have been because that the market for learning Chinese as a Second Language has not yet become so popular, which is to say, there are only so much books out there design for this purpose. As Math has become more and more popular, there are more and more Math related children's literature. Maybe, when one day, learning Chinese has become a trend, writers and publishers will start to consider to write books for Chinese language learning that are not in the form of textbook.

I know that wanting to publish books might sound a lot easier than it truly is, especially with limited knowledge and experience about the field of education and Chinese as a Second Language learning. I believe that one day, I will be able to write and design dream books that has a true plot, setting, characters, etc. while teaching audiences the Chinese language.

In some sense, I think that languages are especially hard to incorporate in literature than any other subjects. 
 

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