When hearing Chinese people’s job of teaching the foreigners to learn Mandarin, some of the Chinese people may look down upon this job. This kind of feeling comes from the idea that any people who grow in China and is able to speak English can do this job. In the daily life, you may hear Chinese people say ‘It is just teach the foreigners to learn Chinese in China. My Chinese is good and I passed the grade six of College English Test. Of course, I can also make this job done perfectly’.

There are many teachers do their job with such attitude. However, as soon as you start this job and insist for a period of time, they will find it is not so easy at all. They will absolutely feel that not everyone can be a good Chinese teacher to teach foreigners. As a matter of fact, it has never been easy to teach Mandarin language to foreigners. The most obvious example for the difficulties they meet is that the questions raised by the foreign students in class might be those you never met in your present life.

Therefore, if you want to be a good Chinese language teacher, you should be more understandable than other Chinese people or even than yourself. But the fact is that much Chinese language knowledge only known by those teachers who have rich experience in teaching Chinese. The ordinary teachers and those who just begin in this job may not know so much Chinese language knowledge. Since the teachers themselves do not understand the language points so profound, they will also feel confused when they show the foreigners how to learn Chinese language and the students will learn in confusion.

In the following parts, several points that the Chinese teachers should pay attention to will be discussed. Firstly, sometimes, even though the students have no problems in articulating the four tones correctly, they always fail to articulate the pronunciation of the character Posted in Arts & Entertainment | Leave a reply