Enhancing Cross-Cultural Adaptation Skills of International Chinese Language Teachers
Enhancing Cross-Cultural Adaptation Skills of International Chinese Language Teachers
- 아시아사회과학학회
- Journal of Asia Social Science
- Vol.10 No.2
- 2023.04
- 121 - 136 (16 pages)
Since 2004, China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language began dispatching international Chinese language teachers to countries in need around the world, the teachers have made important contributions to international Chinese language education and cultural communication. International Chinese language teachers are bound to face various discomfort and difficulties when working and living in a cultural environment different from their own, which affects both their teaching and personal life. This paper attempts to analyze the internal and external factors that affect the teachers’ cross-cultural adaptability, as well as the deficiencies in pre-job training for international Chinese language teachers, to find the existing problems and make suggestions to solve them.
1. Introduction
2. Cross-cultural adaptability and the related theories
3. The significance of developing cross-cultural adaptability skills for international Chinese language teachers
4. Influencing factors on international Chinese language teachers’
5. Deficiencies in the pre-job training for international Chinese language teachers
6. Reflections and suggestions on developing crosscultural adaptability for international Chinese language teachers
7. Conclusion
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