The Certificate in Teaching of Chinese consists of five modules. It aims to equip participants with relevant teaching and assessment strategies to teach Chinese Language more effectively and efficiently in the bilingual environment of Singapore.
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Understand how two languages interact in a bilingual child and what form of language interference they faced when learning Chinese language.
2. Enable trainees to identify language differences between Chinese and English language through contrastive techniques.
3. Enable trainees to diagnose language errors caused by language interference using error analyst technics.
4. Reconcile common errors found in students’ products.

The course will cover the following topics:
1. Knowing our Bilingual Child
1.1 Types of Bilingual Child
1.2 Language features of the Bilingual Child
2. L1 and L2 Differences
2.1 Definition Differences
2.2 Linguistic Differences
2.3 Pedagogical Differences
3. The Concept of Language Transfer
3.1 What is Language Transfer
3.2 Types of Language Transfer and their Features
4. Errors due to Language Transfer
4.1 What are Errors?
4.2 Types of Errors
4.3 Pedagogical Solutions for Common Errors
5. Sample Analysis and Discussion

 （1）Online synchronous + e-Learning (1 hours of asynchronous learning + 5 hours of synchronous learning)
          Course code: CLI-000475
          https://www.opal2.moe.edu.sg/app/learner/detail/course/7842198d-f767-40e6-90c8-fecf093fa3c9 

（2）F2F learning 
         Course code: CLI-000474