IB Chinese Courses Under The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program

The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) was foundedby the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) in1968in Genevaof Swiss. It aimed to offer a high-class and international education forthe kids from the family moving often from one country to another. Thecourses IBDP offered are for the students in the last two years of highschool. They could apply for university around the world by credits getfrom IBDP program. There are3371schools over140countries in theworld which are granted by IBO. Meanwhile, the IBDP courses offered byIBO are accepted by1000universities or so globally.The Baccalaureate Organization offered the Primary Years Program(PYP), the Middle Years Program (MYP) and the Diploma Program (IBDP)continually. The IBO’s Education Philosophy is to cultivate studentsbecome inquiring, knowledgeable and caring and they could make effortsto create a peaceful world by the understanding and respect to the understanding of multicultural.This essay will study the IBDP Chinese courses and adopt the researchmethod of studying literatures, gathering materials, contrasting andanalyzing to get further known about the teaching syllabus, teachingmethods and evaluation systems. In addition, the writer was intern inAmerican International School in Guangzhou for three months and got backagain to observe the IB Chinese classes for more than one month. And thenget to know how the IBDP Chinese courses works in international schooland the students’ study effort.Most part of Chinese courses in the Diploma Program belongs to thefield of Second Language Acquisition. It already has it’s own teachingsyllabus and evaluation system, so this essay will try to find someadvantages from the IB Chinese courses and will use them to improve thesubject of teaching Chinese as Second Language.