A Study of the Current Status Quo of Practical Teaching Skills Training and Improvement Paths of Pre-service International Chinese Teachers

Abstract

Teaching skills are the necessary professional abilities of international Chinese teachers and the core components of their professional competence. At present, there are inadequacies in the practical training of teaching skills of pre-service international Chinese teachers, thus how to effectively improve their teaching skills to cultivate high-level teachers for international Chinese education is one of the urgent problems to be solved. Through the research, this paper explores the current status quo of teaching skills training for pre-service international Chinese teachers (masters of the major of teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages), discusses and explains the cultivation and influencing factors of teaching skills of pre-service international Chinese teachers, and puts forward the paths to strengthen their teaching skills. The results show there are obvious inadequacies in pre-service teachers’ mastery of teaching skills at present, and factors such as graduate supervisors’ guidance, school practical training curricula and pedagogies, internship programs, the participation in the extracurricular activities and teaching competitions, students’ awareness of teaching skills training and general design of practical training together have significant impacts on the training of pre-service international Chinese teachers’ teaching skills. Therefore, targeted strategies should be devised to enhance and promote practical teaching skills training for pre-service international Chinese language teachers.