A Survey Of Business Chinese Learning Needs Of Confucius Institute,Oriental University,Naples,Italy

Business Chinese is a popular course in the curriculum of Chinese as a foreign language.Since the 1990 s,it has become an indispensable part of the system of Chinese as a foreign language.Business Chinese is a kind of special use of Chinese so that students' learning needs are the starting point and destination of BusinessChinese teaching activities.In the recent years,the development of Business Chinese course has attracted much attention.The study of Business Chinese mainly focuses on the characteristics and content of the course itself,while the survey of Business Chinese students' learning needs is relatively lacking.Based on Tom Hutchinson & Alan Waters(2002)requirement analysis model,this paper proposed a new research,which is more targeted on the students' background information and students' need for Business Chinese.This paper adopts the research method of questionnaire survey,supplemented by interviews to collect information.The research object of this paper is the 35 students in the Business Chinese Class of Institute Confucius of Oriental University in Naples,Italy.This paper will make a qualitative analysis of the collected data meanwhile make a analysis about the information collected from interviews.We can get the specific situation of the demand for Business Chinese Course in Italy.The results show that students in the Business Chinese Course has a strong demand to learn Business Chinese.Students can combine their professional orientation and their own learning characteristics with Business Chinese.At the same time,they can correctly realize the value and contents of Business Chinese.They can make a correct prediction of the current situation and origin of Business Chinese,thus promoting their own motivation to learn Business Chinese.