TITLE:
A Study on the Admission System of Foreign Students in Chinese Public Schools —Focus on Chinese Language Education
AUTHORS:
Canjing Ma, Yansong Wang
KEYWORDS:
TCFL for Foreign Students in Primary and Secondary Schools, TCFL Teacher’s Training, Foreign Students’ Admission System
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.8,
August
19,
2020
ABSTRACT: Under the policy “reform admission and management for foreign students”
promoted by Chinese government from 1990s, the admission system construction for foreign
students of primary and secondary schools becomes an unneglectable issue. At
present, there is a discrepancy existing between regulation and facts that the
“international students’ division” was established noncompliance with the principle
“learning in regular class”. The main reason is that it is more convenient to
do necessary Chinese language instruction at “international students’ division”.
In view of the above, this paper clarifies the problems on Chinese language
education through analysis of relative policies and regulations at national and
local level as well as investigating on 6 typical primary and secondary schools
in Shanghai. According to the empirical research, the actual situation of
Chinese language education for foreign students in primary and secondary
schools has been revealed, such as the shortage of TCFL teacher, no amiable
teaching materials and insufficient financial support etc. In conclusion, this
paper proposed some suggestions to improve Chinese language education like
training and allocation of TCFL teachers or development of professional TCFL
materials adaptive to students in primary and secondary schools under the
educational administration financial supports and so on.