Under the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the college cannot recover class on time and students are not allowed to return to school in advance. In order to implement the state's call for "suspension classes without stopping study" and to minimize the impact of the epidemic on teaching work, the School of International Communication organized teachers to use the online teaching platforms such as Super Star, ICVE and other network teaching platforms to teach according to the normal class schedule.
For language learners, the real language environment is very important. International students come to China to study Chinese from a far country because of the Chinese environment. In order not to affect the study of international students, the teaching team for Chinese language communication in the School of International Communication overcame the practical difficulty of inability of using online teaching platforms such as Super Star, ICVE abroad by utilizing platforms such as QQ and WeChat to create an online learning environment beyond space for international students.
To mobilize international students’ enthusiasm for online learning, Wang Xiaojue, an oral Chinese teacher at the School of International Communication, adopted an original approach, that is, transferring the teaching space to her kitchen and integrating the cuisines that students are interested in into the teaching content. She held live broadcasts on cooking "chili fried meat" and other famous Hunan cuisine to help students to learn and consolidate Chinese vocabulary related to cooking, and utilized the most popular TPR (Total Physical Response) teaching method for grammar exercises. This teaching method not only effectively trained students' spoken Chinese, but also intuitively spread the Chinese diet culture. Under the request and guidance of Wang, international students also went into their kitchens to cook their famous local dishes, and introduced the ingredients and cooking steps in Chinese. In the process of cooking, they not only trained spoken Chinese and spread the food culture of their hometowns, but also provided an effective basis for the course assessment.
In view of the actual situation of epidemic prevention and control, Mr. Wang Xiaojue jumped out of the limitations of conventional teaching content, broke the restriction by conventional teaching space, moving the teaching classroom to her kitchen, and realizing the training of spoken Chinese and the spread of Chinese food culture at the same time. She provided a special oral Chinese class with fun and practical effect.
Teacher Wang Xiaojue
Wang Xiaojue is teaching students online
Indonesian student Wu Huimei is learning Chinese while cooking under the teacher's online guidance
