This year for the first time British Council Scotland has been able to offer schools the skills of young Chinese people as an official part of the Foreign Language Assistants programme.

The four assistants have been working in Scotland since September. They are qualified teachers of English at home, but while here they teach their own language and culture for 12 hours per week.

Dunbar Grammar School in East Lothian decided to take an assistant as a follow-up to pupils’ participation in an immersion course in China in July. Lingwei has been able to build on the Mandarin skills gained by the pupils involved, and extend the knowledge to other pupils, which will help with the school link which they are currently setting up. Knox Academy, also in East Lothian, hopes to follow a similar path with the help of their assistant George.

Read the full article on the British Council website.

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