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PROFESSOR: The textbook
itself is a good introduction

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for literacy, OK.

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But I felt that the-- except for
the first month of this course,

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they have to cram 250
characters-- it's hard.

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But after that, I think
the pace slowed down a lot,

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and I think they
have huge potential,

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because the funny things--
teaching heritage learners

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is to discover their potential.

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Because for regular students,
they only have this much.

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They cannot know beyond
what they don't know,

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because they learn
everything from you.

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But for heritage learners,
it's very different.

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They have this
foundation-- this much.

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You don't know each person.

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So they might know the words.

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They just cannot simultaneously
or like naturally think

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of, but they heard
this word before.

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So for that, it's
their potential.

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They have the potential.

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So once you discover
their potential,

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they can go really fast.

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So what I'd like to
change is I'm going to,

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in addition to this
textbook, because it's

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important for the student
to have a foundation.

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Because if they have a
book, they feel much better.

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There's certain things
they can control.

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I don't want to give
them-- for a higher level,

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we start giving them
individual articles.

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For the Streamlined III
or IV, they can handle it.

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But for the
beginner, they can't.

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They want to have a book.

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But in addition to
this book, I want

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to add more text
relevant to the topics

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to the books, which I
did actually last term.

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I added two actual
texts talking about how

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to address people in Chinese.

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And these are considered
more like authentic material,

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and they learn a lot.

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And it echoes what they
know about Chinese.

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They don't talk about
in their textbook,

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because this is a newer text
just recently published.

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And I think I will do that more,
add that more into the course.

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It's two textbooks.

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It's called Modern
Readers, and each book

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has different
levels of the text.

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So I use the text
according to their levels.

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So for the Chinese
107, Streamlined I,

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I use the one talking
about addressing

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people, which is their level.

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Because this is a dialogue.

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For the Streamlined II, I start
using social media-- talking

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about personal page,
talking about-- basically

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you want to go on a trip.

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You go online and find
people put the blog.

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You know, the Chinese, they
put blog and say what you

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need to do before these things.

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It's authentic material.

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Yeah, so I like
to add those more,

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because it's relevant
to their life.

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And these old books are
good at learning characters,

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but not really--
like they said, well,

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it's good to learn Chinese
cultures, but it's so old.

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They always say, it's so old.

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I can't imagine those days.

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Why do we have to do this?

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I said I know, but
you know, the topic

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is just-- it's out of date.

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But a good part is it's a
foundation for them to learn.

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Like sometimes I joke with them.

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I said, just learn
the characters.

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It's good for you.

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[LAUGHING]

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So I think I would like to
not get rid of the textbook

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completely, because I think
they will feel panicky,

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because there's no textbook.

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They don't know what's
next they need to do.

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Is have a textbook that has
something they can always

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refer to, and then
add more and add

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more of these so-called
authentic material.