Chinese Language Teachers Professional Growth And Development In Taiwan, CHINA

With China’s rapid economic growth and its dominant status in the world, learning Chinese has been a worldwide craze, which further leads to the soaring demand for qualified Chinese instructors. In response to the popular fashion, how to professionally train and cultivate a Chinese teacher’s capacity has been a highly-regarded issue to date.The second chapter of this current study explores the professional requirements for qualified Chinese teachers. In the third chapter, the author details the adjustments or reforms Taiwan’s official institutes of modern Chinese teaching and training have been made since2006in terms of the pertinent policies, decree, or even the curriculum and pedagogy design. In addition, the researcher outlines the relevant methods and regulations framing the present Chinese teacher’s cultivation programs in Taiwan. The succeeding two chapters aim to delineate the current scenario of the progress and development of cultivating Chinese teachers in Taiwan.The sixth chapter is a follow-up inquiry to look into how positively the Chinese instructors after a long-term rigorous training in Taiwan are capable to respond to the world population’s need of learning mandarin and as well how their competence are demonstrated or evaluated in the real classroom settings of different cultures. It further analyzes and discusses whether these Taiwan’s teacher cultivation institutes virtually well equip these mandarin instructors to compete for oversea employment opportunities.In the last chapter, the researcher adopts SWOT to sort out the predicament Taiwan’s teaching and learning of modern Chinese encounters and later tries to come up with possible and tangible solutions after the comparison and contrast of the two mandarin teacher cultivation systems across the strait.