Survey And Research About Burundi University Confucius Institute Chinese Language Teaching Situation Based On The Perspective Of Local Teachers

For a long time,Chinese language was not universally recognized by the international communities.The international teaching process of Chinese language was relatively slow,especially in African countries.With the development in recent years,the number of Confucius institutes,teachers and Chinese learners has been increasing.However,the researches on Confucius institutes are relatively few.This paper first gives a detailed introduction of Burundi Confucius Institute Chinese language teaching situation.Basing on educational communication theory and resource based theory,a questionnaire and interview survey,observation and statistical analysis are used to investigate the teachers and students of Burundi University Confucius Institute.After the survey results analysis,Burundi University Confucius Institute Chinese language teaching problems are also analyzed,and we found that the problems are mainly in five aspects: students,teachers,teaching materials,teaching,teaching facilities and cultural activities problems.Aiming at these problems,we put forward the strategies for sustainable development of Confucius Institute: establish funding guarantee mechanism,create good conditions for running schools,innovate management system,improve management standard,put out characteristic textbooks and emphasize teachers training.The last part of this paper puts forward four suggestions for Burundi Confucius Institute Chinese Language teaching:(1)Suggestions for student management: cultivate students' interest in learning Chinese,make innovations of returned students management system,increase the quota of scholarship students,establish appropriate courses and choose appropriate teaching time.(2)Suggestions for teachers: increase the number of teachers,strengthen teachers' teaching training and cross-cultural communication training,and expand volunteer teachers teaching period.(3)The popularization of teaching materials and textbooks writing suggestions: improve the popularity and practicality of the teaching materials,reflect the nature and characteristics of teaching Chinese as a foreign language,and increase the number of teaching materials.(4)Suggestions for classroom Chinese Teaching: using the techniques of many Chinese characters teaching,emphasize on Chinese characters stroke teaching,help students to distinguish written and spoken language,expand vocabulary,enrich grammatical content,and explain the law and application of multiple interpretations.Hope that the proposed strategies and suggestions can provide significant help for the development of Burundi University Confucius Institute Chinese Language teaching.