BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The Virtual National Chinese Language Conference 2020, an annual Chinese language education seminar, went online this year due to COVID-19 concerns, with more than 4,000 Chinese teachers and educators in the United States sharing ideas on innovation and development of international Chinese language education.
Chinese language educators around the world overcame many difficulties during the pandemic and actively carried out online teaching, which gave birth to a new model of online Chinese education, Ma Jianfei, director with the Center for Language Education and Cooperation (the Center) of China's Ministry of Education (MOE), said in a speech delivered at the event.
The global public health crisis has made people more deeply understand the significance of developing language education, deepening international understanding, and uniting and cooperating to build a community with a shared future, according to Ma.
"It is the common mission and responsibility of language educators to cultivate the next generation with global vision, world feelings and cross-language and cross-cultural abilities," he said, noting that the Center looked forward to having in-depth exchanges with all participants and jointly cultivating new forms of international Chinese education in the future.
People globally now have reached consensus on eliminating the unfair phenomenon and it is more important than ever to build a communication channel of mutual understanding and inclusiveness between different cultures through language teaching, according to Anthony Jackson, Vice President of the Asia Society during the event.
The conference, sponsored by the Asia Society and the College Board, and organized by the Center of MOE, consists of such two plenary sessions as "Innovation During a Time of Change: Teaching Strategies and Instruction" and "Authentic Materials in Traditional and Virtual Chinese Language Instruction", as well as 21 sub-sessions on online Chinese course design and strategy, new technology application in classroom and Chinese teaching evaluation among others.
The National Chinese Language Conference has been held once a year since 2008, which is the largest Chinese language education seminar unanimously recognized by American educational circle. (Source: Confucius Institute Headquarters, edited by Niu Huizhe with Xinhua Silk Road, niuhuizhe@xinhua.org)
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