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Chinese Teaching Keeps Warming Up

Chinese Teaching Keeps Warming Up

Source: Author: Updated: 2008-04-23
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Language is a carrier of culture. Chinese teaching is the main approach for overseas Chinese to pass on and inherit Chinese culture. 民俗节庆门户网站


Looked back on the history of overseas Chinese teaching, though under different policies and situation of different countries, it has gone through countless hardships. Only in recent years, with the development of the Chinese society and economy, did Chinese teaching begin rising up among overseas countries, which tends to come to the present.

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From February to April this year, Princess of Thailand came to study Chinese in Peking University. In fact, early in 1989, some insightful persons in Thailand appealed to attach importance to Chinese. The colleges and schools established by the Thailand government were encouraged to open Chinese courses and Chinese is a compulsory foreign language subject in the university entrance examination. wish.1155815.com


In universities of Japan, Chinese as the most important second language is incomparable. In recent ten years, statistics from main universities shows that the students selecting Chinese are far more than those selecting German, French, Russian and Korean.

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In America, due to the inflow of a large amount of new Chinese emigrants after China carrying out of its reform and opening policy, modern Chinese schools have increased to over 200, and the source of student is not only Chinese as before. Chinese stands at the top 5 or 6 of the list of more than 100 foreign languages taught in the U.S., and it becomes one of the ten compulsory subjects in the university entrance examination. New York City has decided to list Chinese into the second language subjects in its public junior high schools recently.

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A French university and a film and television producing center are working on a set of video textbooks teaching primary Chinese called Chinese Approach, and Chinese learners and teachers are increasing instantly. Based on the relevant statistics, there are about 20 thousand people learning Chinese and nearly 200 colleges and schools teaching Chinese.

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Britain, Canada and Australia all encourage their people to learn Chinese. In the Area of Africa, Latin America, etc., Chinese schools and other Chinese teaching institutes have been set up one after another and the number of students is growing constantly.

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At present, the overseas Chinese teaching is facing new turns and challenges. It shoulders two responsibilities at one time: one is to set off again the new mass fever of learning Chinese among overseas Chinese, the other is to make Chinese teaching not restricted to Chinese communities, but act as a window to introduce Chinese culture to foreigners. www.1155815.com

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