Chinese for Young Beginners 1: Chinese/English - Bilingual Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781456505707)

Bill has developed a children's language acquisition and culture immersion program for non-native Chinese speakers - Chinese for Young Beginners. Formerly, Bill was a lecturer at the Chinese as a Foreign Language Department of Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), where he taught students from the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and former Soviet Union. While teaching at SISU, Bill co-authored the book titled Approaches and Methods of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, the first book of its kind published by the Shanghai Foreign Language Press in 1990. In addition, Bill published numerous articles on Mandarin and foreign language teaching methods and its evaluation measurements in The Journal of International Chinese Language Teaching, Foreign Language Circle, Journal of Foreign Language Teaching Using Audio-Video Methods, to name a few. Bill has also translated four published books including Cultural Analysis. During his graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Bill taught Mandarin at inlingua International Language School, Lingual Institute and the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia. Bill continued his Mandarin teaching at DPW law firm and China Institute after moving to New York in 1994. Bill received his first M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), and his 2nd M.A. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania. Bill is working for a global financial service corporation. He held various database management positions at other leading global corporations in U.S.A. in the past two decades. Bill is a native of Shanghai, China. He lives in New York with his family. He is the instructor of Yale University's PIER Chinese language program at Scarsdale High School of New York.