As the development of Chinese comprehensive national power and economy, the improvement of Chinese international status, the position of Chinese language has been increased as time goes by and paid more and more attention by people all over the world. Therefore, the demands for Chinese language study are diverse as Chinese learners increase in amount. To meet the international requirements for Chinese teaching, the most urgent mission for us is to build up a Chinese teaching center in China and do more research on Chinese teaching.
Experts, scholars, full-time and part-time teachers who are engaged in teaching Chinese and research on it both at home and abroad are the human resources guarantee and the main team for the establishment and development of international Chinese program in China; the sinologist experts and scholars who study on foreign language, sinology, linguistics, education, psychology especially the overseas experts who study on Chinese philosophy, history, culture and literature are the significant supporting team for the establishment of international Chinese program in China.
Their academic results are the academic resources for the establishment and development of international Chinese program in China, especially the results on Chinese linguistics, foreign language teaching, linguistics, education and psychology.
Their friendly supports are the decisive voices for the international Chinese program in China to get the due position and even enter into the mainstream foreign language discipline list. The support from overseas academic fields is more important.
To get the independent and legal, mainstream and dominant discipline position, it basically depends on the establishment situation of domestic and abroad teacher teams and the establishment achievement of Chinese program in China in particular.
Without a strong and powerful teacher team or rich teaching theory, teaching modes, teaching results and other resources which are suitable for the real foreign language teaching, Chinese program in China will scarcely get proper and ideal discipline position.
Furthermore, the internationalization of Chinese language depends on the population of learning Chinese in China and the transmission dynamics, as well as the attention and acceptance of relevant national competent departments and the degree that Chinese language is in the national mainstream education system. What’s more, it depends on the cooperative research achievements of international Chinese education field and the Chinese program in China.
Without the follow and support of program, the internationalization of Chinese teaching will be slow, waste and the internationalization of Chinese application will hardly be deep, broad and far.
Of course, the internationalization of Chinese teaching and Chinese application will basically depend on the all-round development of Chinese economy, society and culture as well as the successive improvement of the comprehensive national power and international influence.
What’s exciting is that domestic and abroad experts and Chinese teachers in Chinese teaching field and Chinese program in China have the common expectation to design and develop international Chinese program in China.
For example, one teacher pointed that Chinese teaching in the whole world is an endless ocean; we can’t be limited in the circle of teaching Chinese as second language when we think about questions and research questions, but to have the global view to attract more people learn Chinese in China.
The other professor of Chinese program in China also said that finding out the generality and particularity of Chinese learners in every country will be an international subject, which requires the cooperation of researchers from all kinds of areas or countries.
Scholars who are engaged in teaching Chinese as second language have gotten outstanding achievements on the academic research. However, the amount and covering surface of research is limited. We need not only the collaboration of domestic scholars, but also integrate and make full use of international research superiority and resources. For this reason, the establishment of international Chinese teaching research center will contribute to the cooperation between countries and provide a communicative stage for scholars of every country thereby the research of Chinese teaching can be deepened and booming.