英文摘要
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Overseas ethnic Chinese, among them many have been living outside China for several generations, live in different parts of the world. Their children, born in their adopted countries have totally assimilated into local societies, with no difference from the locals on the spoken languages and social customs. However, the parents always wish for their children to learn Chinese, from which the children can not only appreciate their Chinese cultural root and can also communicate with their grand-parents. Therefore, the parents often insist to send their children to study Chinese at school.According to Canadian multi-cultural policy, International Languages Department of the Greater Toronto Education District offers more than fifty ethnic language programs to cater the needs of respective ethnic groups. Collectively known as International Languages Course, the c1ass meets for 2.5 hours either on Saturdays or in the evenings at a total cost of Can$ 20 dollars as registration fee. The Mandarin (Putonghua) and Cantonese courses, of which the teaching materials both offer standard or simplified Chinese characters, account for the greatest numbers of c1asses. A pre1iminary figure showed that in the year 2010, more than 4,000 students, mostly children of overseas Chinese attended Cantonese c1asses.The Greater Toronto Education District provides both course curriculum guide and teaching materials. The purposes of this artic1e inc1ude: 1. to study issues confronted by teachers of overseas Chinese language teaching, using teachers of Cantonese c1asses of International Languages Department of the Greater Toronto Education District as the target study group; 2. to study the current situation of classroom teaching by examining the observation records of classroom teaching; and 3. to study the opinions of teachers from interviews. The above analyses aim to allow the relevant educational institutions achieve a better understanding of the difficu1ties that the overseas Chinese (Cantonese) teachers face with, and provide assistances and support to them.
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