CI Teachers Attend the Chinese Culture Research and Teaching Forum for China-US University Teachers

From the 10th - 12th of December 2022, the second China-US University Teachers’ Chinese Culture Research and Teaching Forum- the First International Chinese Language Teaching Research Forum between Xiamen University and Purdue University was held online

Dr. Zheng Ying, Director of the Confucius Institute at The University of Southampton attended one of the six sub-forums on the evening of December 10. Dr. Zheng Ying, together with Li Jia and Chen Yuhua, made a report on " An Investigation of the Statistical Alignment of A-Level Mandarin Chinese to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)".

There are 3 stages of the project which are a standard setting exercise to look at the relationship between A-Level Chinese exam and CEFR, A-Level Chinese teacher interviews and a corpus linguistics investigation to look at the language patterns of A-level Chinese exam papers. This research is aiming to help understand the current situation of A-level Chinese teaching and assessment in the UK and to investigate what the A-level Chinese exam is intended to measure and to what extent the A-level Chinese exam can be aligned with the CEFR.