{"id":117044,"date":"2016-03-16T12:55:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T10:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=117044"},"modified":"2016-03-16T13:03:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:03:05","slug":"mandarin-in-south-african-schools-moves-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/117044\/mandarin-in-south-african-schools-moves-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin in South African schools moves forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"dnn_ctr3618_ArticleDetails_ctl00_lblArticle\" class=\"normal\">The process for formalising the policy for the teaching of Mandarin is at an advanced stage, according to the Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Gauteng Department of Education is currently piloting the teaching of the Chinese language in South African Schools, mainly in the Tshwane South District.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"dnn_ctr3618_ArticleDetails_ctl00_lblArticle\" class=\"normal\"> There are 14 schools which are currently teaching the Chinese language and a list of 13 new schools has been proposed for 2016, the minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy to announce that 2,000 textbooks will be donated by the Chinese government to assist in teaching mandarin in schools until a South African textbook is developed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are also looking at establishing e-learning classrooms for the pilot schools teaching Mandarin,&#8221; <span id=\"dnn_ctr3618_ArticleDetails_ctl00_lblArticle\" class=\"normal\">Motshekga<\/span> said at a recent launch event in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The roll-out of Chinese subjects was incrementally implemented in schools with Grades 4-9 and 10 in January 2016, to be followed by Grade 11 in 2017 and Grade 12 in 2018, according to the Department of Basic Education.<\/p>\n<p>The minister noted that the Chinese government has committed to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organise experts to compile Chinese language textbooks that are suited to South African conditions;<\/li>\n<li>Send 100 teachers and volunteers every year for the next five years to mentor and support local teachers of Mandarin;<\/li>\n<li>Train 200 local Chinese language teachers each year for the next five years through local Confucius Institutes;<\/li>\n<li>Provide Confucius Institutes Scholarships in China (offer two scholarships for full teaching qualifications in China);<\/li>\n<li>Support South African educational institutions to apply for opening of Confucius Institutes\/classrooms; and<\/li>\n<li>Send the Chinese Language Advisor to work on setting up systems for introduction of teaching of Chinese Language in South African schools.<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese government has also committed two scholarships for the Department of Basic Education (DBE).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Listen 2 PTA School 4Girls sing in Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Planetarium?src=hash\">#Planetarium<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SciBono?src=hash\">#SciBono<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAChina?src=hash\">#SAChina<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lesufi\">@Lesufi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DBE_SA\">@DBE_SA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElijahMhlanga\">@ElijahMhlanga<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BodibeOupa\">@BodibeOupa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R4SVb9q7p8\">pic.twitter.com\/R4SVb9q7p8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gauteng Education (@EducationGP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EducationGP\/status\/706798068751060992\">March 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pretoria\u00a0school girls sing in Chinese at the launch of the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Joburg.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on relations with China<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Teaching Mandarin in SA schools is political \u2018gat kruiping\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SA teachers, police to learn Mandarin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SA adds Mandarin to school curriculum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process for formalising the policy for the teaching of Mandarin is at an advanced stage, according to the Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":92574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11258,26],"class_list":["post-117044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-basic-education","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117054,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117044\/revisions\/117054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}