Chinese Teachers Research Articles

Investigating relationships between community of inquiry perceptions and attitudes towards reading circles in Chinese blended EFL learning

Little research has been conducted to investigate relationships between students’ community of inquiry (CoI) perceptions and their attitudes towards reading circles (ARC). To bridge the gap this quantitative research reports a cohort of Chinese students’ perceptions of CoI and its prediction for their attitudes towards reading circles (RC) in English as a Foreign Language learning. The researchers administered and collected 202 valid questionnaires. They analyzed the correlations between CoI and ARC dimensions, did regression analyses and came up with insightful findings. It’s found that, concerning CoI, students have more positive perceptions of teaching and cognitive presences than of social presence. Meanwhile teaching presence, cognitive presence, social presence of CoI and usefulness, affect, and behavior of ARC are closely correlated. CoI teaching presence and cognitive presence are significant predictors for usefulness and behavior of ARC, while the combination of the three CoI presences predicts affect of ARC. Investigating the relationships between a longstanding CoI framework and a fledging ARC scale provides great implications for Chinese blended EFL teaching, especially in reading courses.

Intelligent Research on Chinese and English Listening Teaching Based on Deep Learning

The field of education has witnessed a transformative shift in recent years, with the integration of technology playing a pivotal role in enhancing the learning experience. In this context, recommendation systems have emerged as valuable tools for guiding learners through a vast sea of educational resources. However, privacy concerns and the need for personalized recommendations have posed significant challenges. In response, this paper introduces a novel approach, the Semantic Data Fusion Recommender (SDFR), designed to enhance English teaching while preserving user privacy with the use of federated deep learning model. The SDFR federated deep learning for semantic feature extraction from educational content and combines these features with keyword-based content analysis. Furthermore, it incorporates federated deep learning to protect user data and ensure the confidentiality of individual learning journeys. This paper present experimental results that demonstrate the SDFR's ability to provide highly accurate and personalized recommendations, significantly improving the quality of English teaching. Additionally, our approach adheres to strict privacy standards, making it suitable for deployment in educational settings. The SDFR offers a promising framework for adapting recommendation systems to the evolving landscape of online education, catering to the diverse needs of learners while safeguarding their privacy.

Examining the Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Integration in Chinese Middle School Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Examining the Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Integration in Chinese Middle School Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Theoretical Research and Path Exploration of Chinese Culture Input and Acculturation for Foreign Students from the Perspective of Chinese Character Teaching as a Foreign Language

With the quick development of China, the number of foreign students in China has soared. Teaching Chinese as a second language for foreigners with different backgrounds includes language knowledge, the individual cross-cultural adaptation the Chinese culture spread. Chinese characters is the key point in Chinese language learning for foreign students. The charming of Chinese culture is reflected and transmitted by Chinese characters which can help foreign students understand Chinese culture better. By sorting out the theories on Chinese cultural course and acculturation with the perspective of Chinese characters teaching, exploring the corresponding research paths, this paper proposes a reference for the research on conducting cultural course through the way of teaching Chinese characters for foreign students acculturation.

Self-empowerment in the struggling transition from General English to EAP: Action and reflection of a Chinese teacher

Faced with the common challenge of professional development from the periphery of academia, EAP teachers in developing economies such as China also grapple with the particular hurdle of transitioning from teaching General English (GE) courses. While previous studies suggest aspects of how the teachers view the difficulties they encounter, the elicited data they use can hardly show the real actions the teachers take to identify problems, plan and evaluate changes. To remedy this oversight, this study adopts an action research design (Burns, 2010; Johnson, 2012) and explores how one teacher adapted to her new tasks in teaching EAP and coped with the transition through her personal actions.The results show that the teacher was empowered in her struggle with the transition to EAP teaching, and such empowerment enabled her to become an active agent in the changes and implement the accommodating strategies for the EAP curriculum and students. The empowerment was also seen in her efforts not only to accumulate EAP-related experiences and bring forth creative ideas, but also to apply them in her teaching. This action research and its analytical framework help EAP practitioners to reflect on and theorise from what they encounter in everyday classrooms.

《等级标准》与印尼本土中文师资培训以培养“中文+职业技能”课程的结合

<p>In recent years, the “Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education” (hereinafter referred to as “Grading Standards”) have attracted worldwide attention for improving the quality of Chinese teaching. However, local Chinese teacher training in Indonesia rarely discusses the role of “Grading Standards”. Many local professional Chinese teachers in universities do not understand how to combine “Grading Standards” with “Chinese + Vocational Skills” courses. This article explains the “Grading Standards” and the methods and directions of local Chinese teacher training in Indonesia. First, we will introduce the requirements and types of “Chinese + Vocational Skills” courses for Chinese language majors in vocational colleges in Indonesia. Secondly, it proposes training content for local Chinese teachers in Indonesia. The final article provides the “Grading Standards” and Indonesian local Chinese teacher training methods based on constructivist theory. The author hopes that it will be helpful to promote the sustainable development of Chinese teacher training in Indonesia and achieve the goals of Chinese teaching.</p>

二语水平对汉语悲伤通感隐喻认知的影响研究

<p>In this study, Chinese songs containing sadness metaphors were used as experimental materials to investigate the relationship between the level of bilingualism and the perception of Chinese sadness metaphors. Native Chinese speakers perceived sadness more highly in songs with lyrics, but Chinese bilinguals' perception of sadness was not affected by the presence or absence of lyrics. Highly proficient Chinese bilinguals perceived the Chinese sadness metaphor to a relatively higher degree. This study suggests that in Chinese language teaching, especially cultural teaching, teachers can use the sadness inducing effect of sad tunes on listeners to assist students from different cultural backgrounds to understand and remember and use relevant expressions with sadness emotion metaphors in Chinese.</p>

Retracted: Design of Chinese Teaching Evaluation System for International Students under the Background of Data Mining

Retracted: Design of Chinese Teaching Evaluation System for International Students under the Background of Data Mining

泰国不同行业中文学习者的学习策略分析

<p>At present, Chinese language has become one of the languages with the largest number of learners worldwide. Learners are no longer confined to schools, but also include professionals from all walks of life. However, due to the different learning objectives of practitioners in different industries, they attach different importance to language skills, which leads to their different learning strategies. This study focuses on interviewing Thai Chinese learners from different industries to investigate their strategies to improve their Chinese language level in the professional environment. In this study, interviews and questionnaires were used to investigate Chinese learners in different industries in Thailand, in order to understand the learning strategies they adopted in their professional background. The results show that the participants generally recognize the importance of mastering specific language skills in their own professional fields, and the learning strategies they choose are closely related to their occupations. The research results are expected to provide useful information for the field of Chinese teaching, especially in the teaching of Chinese vocational education, which has been widely increasing attention in recent years.</p>

No College Students Left Behind: Writing Module Incorporating Critical Thinking Skills for the National Postgraduate Entrance Examination in China

In recent years, Chinese universities and scholars have recognised the significance of critical thinking. Despite this growing awareness, integrating critical thinking skills into the curriculum remains a challenge in China. To gain entry to postgraduate programmes, students majoring in management in the country are required to take a National Postgraduate Entrance Examination (NPEE) that emphasises logical knowledge related to critical thinking and writing. Hence, this study aims to develop a writing module that incorporates critical thinking skills for college students in China. To achieve this, a mixed methods approach was employed. Firstly, a prototype writing module was created using the Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate (ADDIE) Model and verified by content experts for content validity. Subsequently, the module was implemented in a traditional classroom setting. For the pilot study, a pilot sample of 50 students was randomly chosen from a training centre in China that assists college students to prepare for the examination. For the next stage, 100 students were selected as the study sample. After implementing the writing module, both quantitative and qualitative analysis were conducted. The results indicated a significant improvement in participants' scores in the pre-test and post-test, demonstrating the effectiveness of the writing module in fostering critical thinking skills. The writing module developed by the researchers will have a profound effect on Chinese teachers' teaching in the future. It will provide them with clear instructional materials to cultivate Chinese students' critical thinking abilities, ensuring that no college students will be left behind.
 
 Received: 27 October 2023 / Accepted: 22 December 2023 / Published: 5 January 2024

Research on the Application of Speech Database based on Emotional Feature Extraction in International Chinese Education and Teaching

The advanced analysis of the relationship between acoustic and emotional characteristics of speech signals can effectively improve the interactivity and intelligence of computers. Given the current status of speech recognition and the problems encountered in international Chinese education, the study proposes to extract emotional characteristics to achieve speech construction of the database. Based on considering the emotional characteristics of speech, a hybrid algorithm based on spectral sequence context features is proposed. The DBN-BP algorithm is used to process emotional data of different dimensions, and a speech database is constructed. After testing and analyzing the algorithm model, it is found that the dynamic recognition accuracy of the DBN-BP model fused with emotional features is over 90%, and the negative emotion recognition rates in the three databases are all above 60%. At the same time, the accuracy rate of the model in the algorithm comparison experiment remains above 85%, the data information extraction is relatively complete, and the average test time of less than 1s is less than 3%. The speech database based on multi-emotional feature extraction can effectively provide a new reference for the improvement of the quality of Chinese international education and the improvement of the speech recognition system.

Assessing Digital Teaching Competence: An Approach for International Chinese Teachers Based on Deep Learning Algorithms

Digital Teaching Competency (DTC) is an important skill in the professional development of international Chinese language teachers. This study developed a new deep learning-based assessment model of DTC for international Chinese language teachers. To build this model, the researchers first collected data on DTC from 221 international Chinese language teachers at different levels in 26 countries to ensure that these sample data are representative; secondly, clustering and feature dimensionality reduction techniques were used to preprocess the data and constructed the Siamese architectural model; and finally, the researchers confirmed through experimental validation and expert evaluations that the model has a high accuracy rate of 96.33%. The innovation of this model is to use the traditional three-level network as an improved constructed digital twin network, so as to extract some features that are more accurate and to characterize those features that are most predictive. The improved network is able to extract all the inputs globally and also locally that are of most interest to the user/researcher, the final prediction results are weighted, and those weighted results are used as the final prediction output of the model. This model not only provides systematic and adaptive support for improving teachers' DTC, but through the comprehensive result output, it can provide targeted improvement strategies for teachers to improve their DTC.

Analysis of College Students Participation in Language Classrooms

There are already many literature studies on the phenomenon of low classroom participation and lack of speaking among Asian students. Previous literature has shown that the academic success of university learning is closely related to classroom participation. Classroom participation promotes communication between teachers and students, helps students establish critical thinking, and enhances students' confidence. Nevertheless, students' enthusiasm for classroom participation is still not high. In this paper, through the literature research method, the problem of students participation in the language classrooms in college is analyzed. The study shows that flipped learning, online discussions, and incorporating classroom participation into classroom assessments can help students actively participate in language classrooms. These reasons and corresponding methods provide alternative, correct, and effective teaching guidance for Chinese language classroom teaching.

The Construction of a Shared Resource Base for Teaching Chinese Culture under the Architecture of Disciplinary Knowledge Mapping

Abstract This paper proposes to use knowledge mapping to construct a shared resource base for Chinese culture teaching to realize the optimization and innovation of Chinese culture teaching. The internal data and external data of the Chinese teaching resource base are obtained through two ways textbook informatization and automatic semantic annotation. Then the data are preprocessed to ensure the accuracy of the data in the resource base. On this basis, the LSTM-CRF model is used to identify the entity naming of the knowledge points of Chinese teaching resources. Then, the named knowledge points of Chinese culture teaching resources are integrated and stored to complete the systematic construction of the Chinese culture teaching resource base. The empirical analysis of the proposed resource base is carried out. The data present that the average oral score of the students in the photo group is 37.2583, while that of the students in the experimental group is 43.1465, and the difference between the average scores of the two classes is about 5 points, which is a large score difference. The two-tailed significance sig value is 0.005 if equal variances are used, and the two-tailed significance sig value is 0.008 if equal variances are not used, both of which are less than 0.05, indicating that the method of this paper has a positive effect on improving the speaking scores of the students of the comprehensive Chinese culture class.

The Establishment of Chinese Culture Teaching Resources by Knowledge Graph Applied to Chinese International Education

Abstract With the development of Chinese international education, the construction of Chinese culture teaching resources has become a priority. This study uses knowledge mapping technology to optimize Chinese culture teaching resources in Chinese international education and improve the usability and efficiency of teaching resources. The study adopts a top-down approach to construct a knowledge graph of Chinese culture teaching resources, covering named entity identification, relationship extraction and knowledge meta-extraction. BERT and BiLSTM techniques are used for feature extraction, text encoding, and conditional random field algorithm for knowledge meta-extraction and relationship mining. The experimental results show that the information utilization rate of intelligent retrieval of teaching resources using this knowledge graph is 82.67% and shows good adaptability in applications between different geographical regions. In addition, through comparative experiments, the proposed method in this study performs better than the traditional method in improving the utilization efficiency of teaching resources. This study proves the effectiveness and practicality of knowledge mapping in constructing Chinese culture teaching resources in Chinese international education.

Synergistic Development of Chinese Language Teaching to Foreigners and Traditional Culture in the Information Age

Abstract This paper collects data on teaching resources and traditional cultural elements for the Chinese language teaching abroad platform and mines and analyzes the behavior of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The association rule method is employed to analyze the correlation between Chinese language teaching and traditional culture based on the teaching data. According to the data, New Year’s Snacks (87.83 million) is the most-watched teaching video on YouTube, followed by Lotus Leaf Glutinous Rice Pork Ribs (67.74 million). Chinese cultural symbols (a total of 100) and Chinese cultural and artistic symbols were used more frequently (a total of 54), and optimal teaching aids were selected for different categories of Chinese cultural symbols. This study successfully explored the association relationship between traditional culture and Chinese language teaching to foreigners, providing a basis for the synergistic development of the two.

Chinese teachers’ perspective on integrating autistic children in mainstream primary school classes

This research aimed to investigate teachers’ perceptions of inclusive education, with the understanding that the sociocultural backdrop to inclusive education is crucial to ensure its efficiency. Interpretivist paradigm was adopted, and qualitative study design was used. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with six Chinese school teachers from various mainstream schools that provided inclusive education. It was found that respondents believed that inclusive education results in development of social skills of the students. It was also found that inclusive education helps autistic children interacting with others, shunning their inhibitions, and making friends. The results also confirmed challenges of inclusive education wherein respondents listed several attitudinal and behavioural challenges associated with social stigma and bullying, and difficulty in schools.

Design and Implementation of Virtual Reality Teaching Scenarios for Chinese Language Chinese Education

Abstract By superimposing virtual information on the real teaching scene, it can inject new vitality into the teaching of Chinese in the Chinese language with the characteristics of and immersive learning experience. On the background of exploring virtual reality technology in Chinese education of Chinese language, the article introduces virtual reality technology in teaching, realizes voice interaction and gesture interaction functions, and builds a virtual reality teaching scene by using natural interaction technology. The learning experience test experiment has shown that the virtual reality teaching scene design proposed in this paper has achieved preliminary results with an average score of above 3.6. Through the analysis of student’s learning experiences and the pre-test and post-test analysis of learning motivation in the experimental and control classes, it is learned that the virtual reality teaching scene designed in this paper for Chinese language education has achieved good results.

Training of Chinese Language Teachers at Confucius Institutes in the UK: A Case Study of the University College London Institute of Education Confucius Institute

Training of Chinese Language Teachers at Confucius Institutes in the UK: A Case Study of the University College London Institute of Education Confucius Institute

Constructing and Analyzing the Levels of Emotional Intelligence Factors of International Chinese Language Teachers: An Analysis of SPSS Data Based on a Sample of 200 Teachers

Abstract An important research topic is how teachers explore emotional intelligence in international Chinese language teaching and utilize emotional factors to cultivate students’ motivation to learn. Based on the theoretical model of emotional intelligence, this paper constructs a system of emotional intelligence factors for international Chinese teachers by combining cross-cultural communication theory. In terms of obtaining the relevant factors affecting teachers’ emotional intelligence, this paper introduces structural equation modeling to measure the pertinent aspects. It constructs the PLSSEM emotional intelligence model by estimating the model’s parameters through partial least squares. In terms of analyzing the level of emotional intelligence of international Chinese teachers, this paper chooses a total of 200 international Chinese teachers from various Chinese universities as the research sample. It uses SPSS software to analyze the data in terms of the parameter estimation of the emotional intelligence model, the test evaluation, and the differences in the level of emotional intelligence in multiple dimensions. The results show that the path coefficients of each latent variable of the PLS-SEM emotional intelligence model exceeded 0.3, and the value-added fitness index of the model exceeded 0.95. The emotional intelligence level scores of the 200 teachers averaged 4.557, and there were significant differences in their gender, teaching age, and education level within the 1% range. The emotional intelligence factor system of international Chinese teachers can clarify the specific reasons affecting their development. It can help teachers better develop emotional intelligence and help improve the quality of international Chinese education and teaching.