With the rapid Chinese social and economical development and the enhancement of the international status, the all-scope communications and cooperation had becoming more intensified and extensive between China and the countries around the world. It is also noteworthy for people waiting to study in China that with the increasing demand for the teaching Chinese as a foreign language in the international communities, there appears a boom in learning Chinese.
At the mean time, the teaching style of the TCFL had been progressing toward the diversification. Since when people study Chinese, they could be able to find classes for individuals as well as the groups. And the suspending issue needs to be tackled in the boom of Chinese language lies in how to improve the teaching quality.
The TCFL should be seen as both a science and art by people to teach Mandarin Chinese, during the course of scientific imparting of knowledge and the investigations on the rules, the artistic pursuing of innovation so as to secure the fine teaching effects in appropriate teaching methods are in need of attention at the meantime.
Based on the personal experiences on one-to-one TCFL practices, there are several understandings on the approaches to be taken to meet the needs the individual differences in individualization classes, which may provide useful clues for language learners waiting to attend a Chinese language school as well.
The current conditions of individualization TCFL enjoys the following situations:The first one, which is to be introduced to people to learn Mandarin, is that the organized style of TCFL by the organizations, which are equipped with stable and sizable professional faculties, the elegant and convenient teaching facilities and the suitable teaching materials for the respective teaching objects.
The second situation in current individualization TCFL, which can be discovered by people in an intensive Mandarin course in China, is the existence of the auxiliary teaching style, which is mainly settled to meet the needs of working staff who are studying in institutions of higher learning as an auxiliary learning style.
The third one is in the form of the private lessons guided by the friends to meet the learning demand of people learn Chinese language, which is also quite common to be found among our foreign friends. As far as I am concerned, the current individualization TCFL activities enjoy the following characteristics: the first one is the unconventional teaching mode, with an aim to cultivate limited linguistic abilities, with a characteristic of “fastness, flatness, swiftness”, the learning time span is rather short, and the teaching is focused on the ones of immediate usages, as well as the speed-up learning.
The second characteristic to be found in place to learn Chinese is the practical function with the communion as the priority; the students are then clearly targeted with the learning objectives, and hope to put the knowledge into real applications and to enhance their communication levels as fast as possible.
The third characteristic to be found in a school to study China is the recurrences of the arrangement of scene designing and units as well in its contents. It is usually arranged with the communicative function as the syllabus with a regard to the specific settings in special domains, under the principle of the quick-mastering, and with an emphasis on the recurrences of words, phrases and sentence structures.
The forth characteristic to be shared with people who are expecting to learn Chinese in China is the rich teaching experiences and high teaching strength of the majority of the TCFL faculties. And the last characteristic is that most of the foreigners are usually too busy to attend full time, comprehensive and intensive Chinese learning, since the original learning hours and plans are likely to be interrupted frequently, therefore, compared with the organizational classes, the foreign friends attach more importance to the targeted, flexible, random, effective, timely and interesting teaching styles.
Due to the characteristics of the needs of the foreign students in the targeted, flexible, random, effective, timely and interesting teaching styles, the TCFL teachers should always try to adjust their teaching approaches to meet their increasing demands, since it is the teachers’ main quality in advancing with the times and being creative in thinking.