On The Role Of Identity In Chinese Classroom Teaching

As Chinese develops worldwidely, now there are four main styles of International Chinese teaching class:first, the language classes of some universities in China; second, Confucius Institute in countries and other Chinese teaching classes abroad; third, Chinese summer classes held by Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University and other universities with some Chinese universities in China; forth, language training classes held by different companies in China. All of these classes suffer a same problem:cultural differences between teachers and students. In order to let different Chinese teaching classes more efficient, the author thinks it is necessary to find a theory to solve the problem while maintaining these differences. After reading a lot of papers and observing Chinese teaching classes, the author thinks Identity Theory could be an approach. That is what humanistic theory proposes---- "people oriented". Besides, the author published a paper with her mentor called Discussion on the Sense of Identity in Chinese International Teaching Classes. Based on this, the author further assumes the effect of the Sense of Identity. The author tested and analyzed this assumption in the second year class observation and internal abroad.This paper contains five parts. The first part provides the reason for choosing this topic as the goal of research and tells the significance of this research in theory and practice aspects. The second part is the literature review, including theoretical bases and relative researches. The third part introduces the specific details of different classes in the paper. The fourth parts tells what is Identity in Chinese teaching classes. The fifth part is the conclusion of the fourth part about how to put the Sense of Identity theory into practice in classroom teaching. The sixth part analyzes how Identity takes effect in Chinese teaching classes. The last part is the conclusion of this paper, raising possible problems of this research and expectation of future studies.