From designing the current teacher interview questions and the students survey questions, me and Yejing realized that it requires a lot of accommodations in order to seek a perfect balance between fulfilling the expectations and needs from the teacher and the learners. Thus, we aimed not only at designing a curriculum that can attract young learners’ attention to continue maintain their interest in learning Chinese, but can also ensure a high level of cultural aspects and practical use in the Chinese language. Thus, we ended up creating a curriculum which includes four major units—Food, Travel, Variety Shows, and Politics—with each accounts for six different lessons, thus 24 different lessons in total. When it comes to forms of instruction in, we value not only students’ preference in informal chatting and in-group discussion, but also the significant oral presentational skills they ought to have, from an instructors’ perspective.

-Kim Liao