{"id":781,"date":"2008-11-08T00:08:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/?p=781"},"modified":"2023-04-07T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:33:10","slug":"chinese-on-the-chattahoochee-k-12-chinese-language-programs-taking-off-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/2008\/china-currents\/7-1\/chinese-on-the-chattahoochee-k-12-chinese-language-programs-taking-off-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese on the Chattahoochee: K-12 Chinese Language Programs Taking Off in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2000, a meeting at a prominent Atlanta school about the possibility of starting a Chinese language program concluded with a question about the need to study \u201cRed China.\u201d Additional questions followed, about the likely interest of students \u2013 let alone parents \u2013 in courses in Chinese. Little could the participants imagine how quickly things would change.<\/p>\n

In the months immediately following, a number of globally minded schools in Atlanta began the process of teaching Chinese, joining the one Georgia school with a long-running high school Chinese program \u2013 North Atlanta High School. Others quickly followed, and by 2008, the aforementioned school had jumped on the bandwagon as well. Seemingly overnight, nationwide demand has made Mandarin Chinese one of the \u201chottest\u201d languages for K-12 schools to teach.<\/p>\n

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National Demand for Chinese<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Across the country hundreds of Chinese programs have been started in the past few years. Growth has been particularly noteworthy in California, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Boston, Chicago, Portland (Oregon), and the Bay Area. The Language of the Future Sounds Like Chinese<\/em>1<\/a><\/sup> and The Future Doesn\u2019t Speak French<\/em>2<\/a><\/sup> have become familiar headlines, as Chinese language learning in K-12 schools has taken off. While there are no precise statistics for the number of K-12 students studying Chinese, when the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages conducted a survey in 2000, only about 5,000 students were studying Chinese in primary and secondary schools. By 2006, they estimated that number to have reached 30,000 to 50,000.3<\/a><\/sup> By the end of 2008, that number is likely to be exponentially higher, given the number of schools planning to start programs as soon as they can secure qualified teachers.<\/p>\n

A number of converging forces are fueling this rapid growth.<\/p>\n

Fear<\/strong> \u2013 By way of comparison, some experts have cited the language trends of the 1960s \u2013 i.e., the study of Russian after Sputnik \u2013 and the 1980s \u2013 i.e., the study of Japanese as Japan\u2019s economy soared \u2013 and pointed to Chinese as next in this line. In fact, Chinese is similar, yet also different: Perhaps never before has a single nation combined an economy with China\u2019s massive potential, a huge and increasingly well-educated population, and political and military influence to boot.<\/p>\n

Competition<\/strong> \u2013 Forward-thinking parents are always anxious for their children to secure the very best academic and professional opportunities. In a global economy, with increasing ties to Asia, and China in particular, learning to communicate in Chinese seems like the perfect ticket ahead. \u201cThere are unbelievable opportunities to do business in China, so there\u2019s a need for Americans to learn the language, so we\u2019re not left out,\u201d says one proponent of Boston\u2019s first Chinese immersion program.4<\/a><\/sup>Similar sentiments can now be heard nationwide.<\/p>\n

Interest<\/strong> \u2013 One only needs to visit one of the Chinese language classrooms in the inner city of Chicago or Atlanta, to appreciate how enthralled elementary students are with the language and culture. Chinese, with its sharp difference from both spoken and written English, has a strong attraction for many children, and arguably youth and adults as well. In the mid-1990s, when the author was first teaching Chinese to elementary school students in New Haven, Connecticut, this strong sense of fascination was clearly on display \u2013 long before the current push for Chinese, a decade later. Give American children a choice between studying a language more closely related to English and studying Chinese, and the latter will win out, hands-down.<\/p>\n

Educational Reform<\/strong> \u2013 U.S. education is troubled in more complex ways than revealed by weak standardized reading and math scores. Schools must globalize the curriculum, if they are to effectively train students for the real world of the future. Integrating Chinese into the curriculum as early as possible offers a clear way to shake things up across the board. \u201cEfforts to improve reading, math and science skills may be on the nation\u2019s educational forefront, but quieter efforts are being made by educators and the government to prepare children for the future by teaching them languages such as Arabic and Chinese.\u201d5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

China\u2019s \u201cSoft Power\u201d Revolution<\/strong> \u2013 The Chinese government has stated that it \u201cwants 100 million Mandarin students worldwide by 2010 (compared to the current estimate of 40 million)\u201d and is putting real money where its mouth is. Since 2004, Beijing\u2019s National Office for Teaching Chinese (commonly known as Hanban<\/em>) has been opening Chinese language and cultural centers \u2013 Confucius Institutes \u2013 at a quickening pace across the globe.6<\/a><\/sup> At the most recently established Institutes, moreover, one finds an increasingly direct focus on K-16 Chinese language and culture education. Hanban has also been involved in developing teacher exchange and training programs, to help fill the void of qualified Chinese language teachers. Since 2006, it has invited and sponsored thousands of school administrators from around the U.S. to visit and \u201cexperience\u201d China.7<\/a><\/sup> Further, it has supported the development of significant language assessment measures, including the Chinese Advanced Placement test and a revamped version of the Chinese Proficiency Test.8<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Chinese in Georgia<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Southeast has lagged somewhat behind other regions, in the development of K-12 Chinese programs. But things are changing quickly and with the proper support, and continued collaboration along the lines we have seen in recent years, the region could quickly catch up.<\/p>\n

In Georgia, only four high school Chinese programs existed in 2000.9<\/a><\/sup> By 2008, more than twenty K-12 schools10<\/a><\/sup> were teaching Chinese. Another ten to fifteen, meanwhile, plan to offer Chinese in the coming year. The outstanding challenges for Georgia, the region, and the nation, however, remain significant:11<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n