중국의 왹국어로서의 중국어교육에 대한 현황과 전망

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyze how China established Chinese education as a foreign language and how this education system was developing. Through this analysis, Chinese language education in Korea can have better understanding of this education system and can use it as basis. In China, teaching Chinese as a foreign language is also called as Educating Chineseasa Second Language or The International Chinese Education for Foreigners. As the foreign language program, this program initiated in 1950’s and after 1980’s it began to accelerate its development. The significance of this period was that this foreign language began to settle down as its own separate educational program and it was also considered as ‘The Office of Chinese Language Council International’ and therefore, began to receive financial assistances from the government. Currently, about 110 universities around China have created this program ‘Teaching Chinese to Foreigners’. Among these universities, the most influential universities are Beijing University and Beijing Language and Culture University. Both Universities have bachelor and master programs and also they are wellknown for creating National Chinese Tests such as HSK and BCT. These universities’ master programs and newly structured 2007’s “Standards for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages” emphasizes how important it is for teachers who instruct Chinese to foreigners to understand and apply “Second Language Acquisition” and “Inter Cultural Communication”. As Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese education is improving as it follows the footstep of English TESOL. This trend implied that it is important for Chinese education in Korea to follow this new education system. Recently, Ewha University established EPTeCSOL(Ewha-Peking Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages), which visions the effective and standard teaching Chinese program in Korea in near future.