Elementary Chinese Speaking Training Curriculum for International Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) develop the elementary Chinese speaking training curriculum for international students and 2) evaluate the suitability of the elementary Chinese speaking training curriculum for international students. This research was divided into 2 phases. Phase 1: the samples consisted of 30 international students from the Chinese Institute of Beijing Language and Culture University. The research instrument included a questionnaire on language proficiency and interest in using the basic Chinese speaking training course for international students. Phase 2: the samples were 3 curriculum and instruction experts, 3 administrators, 5 teachers, and 39 students from the Chinese Language Institute of Beijing Language and Culture University, which were selected by the purposive sampling method. The research instruments consisted of: 1) the draft of the elementary Chinese speaking training curriculum for international students and 2) the evaluation form for evaluating the suitability of the elementary Chinese speaking training curriculum for international students involved in the training curriculum. The data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The research results showed that: 1) from the results of the development of an elementary Chinese speaking training curriculum for international students, the curriculum contains the components of the course, including principles and reasons, training objectives, content, scopes of structure and content and training time, training approach/methods, training materials and learning resources, and measurement and evaluation, and 2) according to the evaluation results of the suitability of the elementary Chinese speaking training curriculum for international students, it was found that the training curriculum components in seven areas were at the most appropriate and very appropriate levels, and the overall average score was at a very appropriate level.