Primary Stage Integrated Curriculum Research And Instructional Design To Ecuadorian Students

Recently, the number of practice researches of Teaching Chinese as a ForeignLanguage increased a lot. While most of which pay more attention to the developedcountries and Southeast Asia, few to small South American countries. This paper,based on my experience of Confucius Institute in Ecuador, researches about theChinese teaching there.Primary, this paper will do some research about the mainly primary integratedlessons. About students level of the language knowledge and the language skills, theaccordance of the book, the difficulties to students between Chinese and Spanish, thedistribution of the four skills. From the research, obtain the flaws of the students. Wefind that students pay more attention to the words and pronunciation while less to thecharacter and culture; more to the speaking and listening and less to the reading andwriting. Then, all the data will be utilized in the Instructional Design.In the instructional design, this paper based on the theory “Contrastive AnalysisHypothesis” and theory “Task-based Language Teaching”, will give a detail task toeach lesson. After a compared analysis of Chinese and Spanish Grammar, and withteaching experience, it gives a prediction of the difficulties and errors may appearwhich are presented in structure and picture. Also it creatively designs a modulo ofCharacter learning. At last each lesson will be attached with one task. The teachinggoal is to complete the task.