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Background
The
Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CTCFL) at the University of
Oxford is located in the Institute for Chinese Studies in Walton Street,
Oxford. The Centre is funded for its initial phase from 1998 to 2001 by the
Jessie and Thomas Tam Charitable Foundation of Hong Kong. Workshops and
research projects run by the
British Chinese Language Teaching Society are supported by CTCFL.
At the present, the centre focuses on the development of online and
multimedia language teaching.
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Objectives
The Centre focuses on
creating web-based or computer assisted
programmes to improve Chinese language teaching and learning. Other units of
Oxford University that are involved in these projects are the
Institute for Chinese Studies
(ICS) and the
Oxford University Computer Services
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CTCFL
achievements
- In 1999 the CTCFL created web-based teaching
programmes for elementary level students and set up an
efficient
web-site link system for intermediate and
advanced Chinese language learners.
- In 2000, during the second year, the CTCFL turned the web-based
elementary-intermediate teaching programme into CDROM format and prepared
materials for a multimedia programme for intermediate-advanced level.
- The CTCFL was engaged a project on teaching of
Chinese language skills,
which is funded by the FDTL. This project started in October 2000 and finished in December 2002.
- In 2001a trial version of
Chinese Multimedia CD ROM for
elementary-intermediate level was completed and was
tested by students of Chinese in UK universities. The CD
was finally published in 2002.
- All the materials that
were generated in the FDTL project were made available on
the internet in 2003.
- Since 2003 the CTCFL has
been developing
multimedia supplementary materials for teaching and
learning. The Centre has intergraded the IT methods into
the conventional teaching and learning of Chinese language.
- The Centre published its second CDROM
Multimedia Spoken Chinese with a textbook at
intermediate level in Oct 2004.
- In 2006 the CTCFL
involved in the language teaching and learning
projects for the
British Interuniversity China Centre. Since then
it has created a Chinese language course for
mid-career development which combines the methods
of intensive teaching and online learning for the
British academics.
- 2007 a trial version
of online
Chinese Grammar programme was created.
- Since summer 2007 the
Centre has been developing Multimedia Role Play in
Chinese, an online programme with the
Oxford University Computer Services .
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Facilities
CTCFL has a Sony language laboratory system with
SmartBoard and eighteen student positions. The system is connected
to internet satellite
channels and
a DVD player.
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Staff members
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