The Mandarin Stars Native Learner's Program for

Children Age 5 to 12 years

NEW Mandarin Chinese classes for heritage/ native Mandarin learners!

Mandarin Stars is proud to announce that we have now launched our new Mandarin Chinese program for native Mandarin speakers who already fluently speak Mandarin at home.

To learn more about this program in a Mandarin Chinese- please click here.

To see the latest timetable for these classes- please click here.

These exciting Mandarin Chinese classes for children will be delivered in one hour sessions and will be taught in 100% immersion Mandarin. Not only is this conducive to the whole learning environment, thus enabling a modern Chinese learning environment for our students, it will also reinforce our students’ listening and speaking skills in Mandarin Chinese.

Our Mandarin Chinese program for children who are native Mandarin learners will be intensive yet fun. The program content will focus on developing strong reading and writing skills in the Mandarin Chinese language and will focus on:

1. The teaching of reading and writing of Chinese characters through our innovatively designed program which is specifically for young heritage learners who are native Australian-Chinese Mandarin Chinese speakers. Children will be taught step by step, the Chinese radical characters through our innovatively created teaching methods which are researched on an ongoing basis by our highly trained Program Director and her team. Our aim is to be able to teach an average of 250-350 characters per year over a 1 hour session per week. For reference: children in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong are required to master 500 characters in their first year of primary school. It takes mastery of some 4000 characters to read a Mainland Chinese newspaper (Source: Chinese Language Education in Schools by Dr. Jane Orton, October 2008) 

2. FUN Chinese rhythm and rhymes! Children of all ages learn effectively through lively rhythmic ballads. ‘Nursery rhymes play an important role in the cognitive and linguistic development of children (Syamalakumari, 2009). Teaching rhymes help children not only develop their language skills (Crystal, 1996), but also predict their literary skills in the future (Bryant and Bradley, 1985).’ Through the power of rhyme, we will engage our students creatively and reinforce the content which we are teaching.  

3. The introduction and teaching of Mandarin Chinese grammar including:

• Mandarin Chinese Sentence Structure
• Mandarin Negatives
• Mandarin Questions
• Mandarin Adjectives
• Mandarin Measure Words
• Mandarin Past Tense

In line with our Mandarin Stars philosophy, these Mandarin Chinese classes for children who are native learners will also be developed and delivered in a fun and engaging manner- our goal is to inspire our students, develop their sense of pride in being able to speak more than one language and also motivate them to continue learning Mandarin. 

In our commitment to creating and developing a first class Mandarin Chinese program for children here in Australia, we will be researching our program content and our teaching methods on an ongoing basis. Our program research takes place globally. So far, we have worked with contacts and resources in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and the US.

Furthermore, we are very committed to developing, training, coaching and mentoring all of our teachers in every way possible so that they can be as successful as possible in teaching your child Mandarin Chinese.

Class fees are $13 to $18/ hour depending on which venue you attend. Enquire with our Enrolment Team on 8437 2498/ via email at enrol@mandarinstars.com.au for exact fees. Class sizes will be small. We will start off with 3 entry points for students (they will be assessed upon their first lesson) and are as follows:

-Level 1 (For beginners with no experience in reading and writing Mandarin Chinese)

-Level 2 (Understand Pinyin, basic radicals and be able to write 50-100 characters)

-Level 3 (Understand basic sentence structures and be able to write 200-300 characters)

Fees are to be paid in advance on a per term basis. We offer a free trial lesson for every child and if you decide to enrol mid term, we will adjust your fees accordingly.

If you are keen to learn more about this new program, please contact us on 8437 2498 or email enrol@mandarinstars.com.au and we will discuss these classes with you.

BOOK YOUR FREE TRIAL CLASS NOW!

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