Most of the foreign friends choose to study in China in recent years, and when they come to study in China, they agree that studying abroad programs in China is the best way to have a good master of Mandarin Chinese. While learning Mandarin Chinese in China, quality of the education in studying abroad programs in China is very important, for example, you Chinese teacher. There are two excellent books that will definitely assist Chinese teachers teaching skills.

The first one is 国际汉语教师语法教学手册(作者：杨玉玲；出版社：高等教育出版社；产品类型：纸质；内容类型：教学资源手册；出版日期：2011年4月；定价：118元). The proper people to use this book include international teachers who teach in studying abroad programs in China, Chinese volunteers and undergraduate and graduate students who are majoring International Chinese Education. It can also be used as a guide book for teaching classes, training and self learning for teachers from studying abroad programs in China.

The book is made up by 62 main grammar points, and those grammar points are divided into four kinds: speech, sentence elements, special sentence pattern and fixed structures and sentence type. Each of the grammar point contains six parts, which are basic knowledge, common mistakes, guide of teaching, advice on teaching, in- class activities and test questions. Common mistakes are what should be paid more attention to when you join in studying abroad programs in China.

Some teachers from studying abroad programs in China may ask what kind of differences are there between this book and other books. This book is written in concise words and uses vivid pictures and live situation to illustrate grammar. Every grammar point in this book has test and exercises, which makes it a lot easier when Chinese teachers try to prepare exercises for students from studying abroad programs in China. The book has also shortened Chinese teachers’ time of preparing various kinds of exercise to foreign students.

国际汉语教师课堂技巧教学手册(作者：王巍，孙淇；出版社：高等教育出版社；产品类型：纸质；内容类型：教学资源手册；出版日期：2011年4月；定价：78 元) is the second book recommended by teachers from studying abroad programs in China. The book is useful mainly for international teachers, Chinese volunteers and undergraduate and graduate students who are majoring International Chinese Education. This book is made up by two main parts, and they are classroom teaching design and questions- answering for class teaching.

There are three advantages of this book when teachers use this book as a tool in studying abroad programs in China. The first one is that some class teaching activities are derived from those used many years ago, but editors of this book makes some changes before edits them into the book. All of the activities in the book have reference words, forms, pictures and answers to the questions designed in the activity, which has shortened Chinese teachers’ time of preparing classes. The third thing is there are many tips in this book, which aims at helping teachers to draw inferences about other cases from those activities.

These two books aim at improving international Chinese teachers’ teaching skills as the way a teacher gives lessons to foreign students will directly affect students’ learning result. There are also other good books for teacher to use as tools of teaching Mandarin Chinese, and these are just two of them. Learning and researching into those books will help you improve your teaching skills.