Research on the feasibility of student-teacher assisting non-Chinese speaking students in learning Chinese

There are about 10,000 non-Chinese speaking(NCS) pupils attending either main-stream or designated schools in Hong Kong. Therefore, student teachers now enter HKIEd will encounter those NCS pupils in the future. However, no teacher training program specially designed relatively . This researcher has since 2009 launched a feasibility study on the student teachers in aiding NCS pupils to learn Chinese. The aim of the study is to find out whether the student teachers , through participating in teaching practice, can grasp both the pedagogy and teaching materials relating to the teaching NCS pupils' learning Chinese . Research methods include questionnaire, interviews and reflective reports. Research findings may offer another view of the effective model of teacher training.