{"id":291,"date":"2006-02-11T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/certifying-mandarin-teachers-in-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2006-02-14T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T10:54:33","slug":"certifying-mandarin-teachers-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/certifying-mandarin-teachers-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"certifying Mandarin teachers in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s Ministry of Education hopes to introduce a certification system for teachers of Mandarin as a foreign language. <a href=\"http:\/\/davidonformosa.blogspot.com\/\">David<\/a> has already stated what I would: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It would be interesting to know whether knowledge of Hanyu Pinyin and simplified characters is necessary to obtain certification. It does seem like a good idea, but unless the standards for certification are set at a high level then it won&#8217;t achieve much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2006\/02\/10\/2003292318\">Ministry initiates certification for teaching Chinese<\/a>, <em>Taipei Times<\/em>, February 10, 2006<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/davidonformosa.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/certifying-chinese-teachers.html\">Certifying Chinese teachers<\/a>,  David on Formosa, February 10, 2006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s Ministry of Education hopes to introduce a certification system for teachers of Mandarin as a foreign language. David has already stated what I would: It would be interesting to know whether knowledge of Hanyu Pinyin and simplified characters is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/certifying-mandarin-teachers-in-taiwan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,32,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}