"You And Me, In Beijing" Hanban Summer Camp Teaching Practice And Reflection

As the China miracle happened and is still happening, countries from all around the world are more eager to know this ancient civilization than ever before, and vise versa. Under this background, the demands for studying Chinese is rising continuously which makes this language spreading quickly during these recent years. Teaching Chinese as a second language is not only a subject or a job, it is a great enterprise for our whole nationality and also an important bridge to achieve the Chinese dream. At present, teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages is a booming subject. Among them, the Chinese summer camp through short-term "bringing in" way to help Mandarin Chinese faster and wider "going out". With more and more foreign teenagers choose to participate summer camps in China, it comes significant opportunity for the international promotion of Chinese language.As a kind of short-term Chinese teaching, the summer camp is vital for the international promotion of Chinese language. But the studies on its theories and practices are still inadequate. So I hope to adopt a pragmatic attitude, starting from the teaching actual effect, combined with my practice of teaching in summer camp, to reflect and to rethink the fact of Chinese teaching in the summer camp, making a little contribution to the international promotion of Chinese language.During the summer camp teaching, I was facing several problems such as less teaching hours, what to teach and how to teach, students how to learn, lack of data for reference and so on. So I need to find effective teaching methods to make summer camp teaching become more professional.This paper will start with the specific teaching practice, combined with the theory of task-based teaching, to elaborate the details in the Chinese summer camp. The teaching practice was12class hours, which included6topics based on the demands of the learners. According to the questionnaire, learners hold positive attitude towards teachers and curriculum design. And I’m lucky enough to be one of the four perfect teachers, and as a teacher representative interviewed by China Daily.There are5Chapters in this paper. Chapter1states the meaning of my topic selection and generally summarizes the Chinese summer camp teaching and short-term Chinese teaching. By concluding existed data, it is clear that the subject of Chinese as a foreign language has little experience on short-term Chinese teaching, and the former studies basically concentrate on macrography theories rather than microcosmic practices. It still leaves a lot of space to farther study. Next is the train of thought, the methods and the content of the paper. The end of this chapter mainly states the theory-basis of this paper, and introduces the definition, characters and principles of task-based teaching.Chapter2gives a brief introduction to "You and Me In Beijing" summer camp and presents the goals, principles, methods and content of it. The summer camp teaching is based on the learner’s needs, and under the guidance of task-based teaching theory, combining actual teaching, determining the teaching goals, teaching principles, teaching methods, integrating existing teaching resources, selecting the content you need to teach.Chapter3introduces the specific teaching practice of this summer camp and mainly presents the task-supported teaching progiess and the lesson plan, with some explanation of this teaching mode at last.Chapter4summarizes and rethinks this teaching practice, including the teacher-training and the questionnaire.Chapter5sums up the characters of summer camp Chinese lessons, analyses the advantages of task-supported teaching in Chinese summer camp teaching and points out the weakness of this paper.