Pamela Rose: How This Learner Fulfilled her Ambition of Becoming a Chinese Teacher

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Hello and welcome back to the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast! We're finally back after a several month hiatus.

On today’s episode I speak to Pamela Rose an educator and Mandarin teacher with a fascinating background. Pamela grew up in New York, to a Chinese mother and an American father. She didn’t learn any Chinese in early childhood but as a teenager became fascinated by the language, as well as her cultural heritage. From there she embarked on a journey which would culminate in her not only becoming fluent in Chinese but also qualifying as a Mandarin teacher.

Pamela’s teaching style is largely inspired by Stephen Krashen’s comprehensible input - which we’ve discussed a lot on this podcast before - as well as a method called  TPRS, which stands for Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling.

In this podcast Pamela shares her story with us and explains how her experiences in the classroom, both as an instructor and  learner, have shaped her teaching approach and methods.