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Teaching Chinese in the Global Context: Challenges and Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2015

Cheng Aimin
Cheng Aimin*
Affiliation:
Institute for International Students, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: amcheng@nju.edu.cn
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Abstract

In the past 30 years, teaching Chinese as a foreign/second language (TCSL/TCFL) has made great achievements in Mainland China. However, TCSL/TCFL is at a crucial point at present, and its global development in the 21st century presents us with new questions and challenges. There are many issues involved as TCSL/TCFL adapts to this rapid change from a largely domestic context to a global one. This article attempts to address such issues as the significance, challenges and strategies of TCSL/TCFL in mainland China by outlining its brief history and development since the 1950s, and calls for the establishment of an international ‘framework of reference’ for Chinese language teaching.

Type
China in the Process of Globalization
Information
European Review , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , May 2015 , pp. 297 - 308
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2015 

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