Profile

We are committed to cultivating high-level, appliedand dedicated professionals who can adapt to theinternational promotion of Chinese language and thespread of Chinese culture to the outside world in thenew era,professionals that are also competent in avariety of teaching tasks. Degree holders should havehigh quality teaching skills, proficient Chinese as asecond language, good cultural communication skillsand cross-cultural communication skills. Through theperfect curriculum system, high-quality teachingcontent, unique research direction and diversifiedpractice links, this major comprehensively cultivatesstudents' awareness of the international disseminationof Chinese, as well as expanding students' knowledgeof Chinese language and culture.It also promotesstudents'skills in teaching Chinese as a secondlanguage and improvinggtheir interculturalcommunication ability.

Teaching Language:Chinese

Job Prospect

Volunteer teachers of Chinese as a foreign language, Chineseteachers in international schools, working in cultural exchangesin relevant departments, schools, press and publishing, workingin cultural management and enterprises, working at institutionsin China and abroad.

Core Courses

InternationalDissemination ofChinese Culture

Instructor Wenwen KAN

Course Description

This course aims to explore the forms of Chinese cultural communication. The students will study the strategies ofinternational communication in Chinese culture within the wider concept of globalization. They will analyze thehistorical experiences and teachings of international communication within Chinese culture,combined with the rulesof international language and eulture communication. This will enhance their capacity of considering the implicationsand goals, the means and methods, the issues, the solutions, and the mechanisms associated to international communi-cation within Chinese culture. The relationship between communication and Chinese cultural diplomacy, culturalindustry and its economie model will also be discussed throughout the course

Observation and Practice ofChinese Skills Teaching

Instructor Juanman ZHENG

Course Description

In terms of teaching and learning, modern Chinese for the major ofTCSL differs significanlty from that of the Chineseundergraduate program due to variances in these two professional discipline systems and the required professionalqualities for each.lt has brought forward various demands for the teachers and the students. The students in this clasare geting ready to continue with the modern Chinese course for the TCSL Major. it accomplishes this throughaddressing teaching objectives, providing courses with excellent material, highlighting the importance of respectwhen teaching .teaching techniques, erading. and other factors.

Introduction to InterculturalCommunication

Instructor Weijia MIU

Course Deseription

It seeks to aid students in comprehending culturalvariety, enhancing cultural awareness, developingmulticultural awareness, cultivating the capacity forcritical thinking, mastering the skills of interculturalcommunication, and laying afrm foundation forstudents to achieve successful idea exchange andcultural communication in a cross-cultural context.

Second Language Acquisition Research

Instructor Yuxiang WANG

Course Description

This course's objectives are to examine various approches and theories of second language acquisition, to presentstudents with a more complete and balanced theoretical pattern of second languange acouisition, and to assist studentsin developing the ability to use the pertinent theories of second language acquisition, linguistics, pyscholingustics, andsociolinguistics.The students will study language learning problems, improve the ability to use second languageacquisition methods so as to solve problems in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, lay a good theoretical founda-tion for writing graduation thesis, and cultivate scientific research literacy for professional development.