The Study Of Activities In Chinese Class For Working Adults In Germany

With China's economic take-off and the upgrading of international status,"Chinese fever" has already swept the world.As a medium and bridge for communication between China and the world,Chinese language has also been paid more and more attention by overseas countries.Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries,China and Germany have maintained friendly cooperation in cultural and educational fields.Up to now,there are about 30,000 Chinese learners in Germany each year,and the group of working adults is the largest group of studentsFrom September 2015 to August 2016,I worked as volunteer Chinese teacher of the Hanban in Confucius Institute at University of Dusseldorf,Germany.Most of my students are adults,who are beginners at Chinese learning.In practical teaching.l have encountered many difficulties in classroom activities because of the subjective or objective reasons.such as the low enthusiasm of the students to participate in the activities,the lack of time for classroom activities,and so on.Therefore,I would like to know about the use of classroom activities for working adults in Germany.By comparing the commonality and differences between the German working adults and the students,I studied the specificity of German adults in the classroom activities.Aimed at the problems in typical classroom activities cases,I proposed solutions and suggestions,explored how to cary out the Chinese classroom activities for the German working adults.This paper is divided into five parts.The first part is the foreword,which mainly includes the origin and the research significance of the study,the characteristics of the working adults in Germany,the domestic and foreign research results of classroom activities and the research methods of this thesis.The second part is the main part of the article,firstly I introduced the design and implementation of the questionnaire as well as the classification of the objects.Then according to the results of the survey,the discrepancies between teachers 'and students'views on classroom activities and the difference between the activities for working adults and those for the students at the primary,middle school and university were analyzed.The third part is the class activity cases of German working adults.In this paper,three cases of classroom activities for German working adults at Confucius Institute in Dusseldorf were present.After exploring typical problems in classroom activities,I would like to propose solutions and suggestions,discuss the types of activities,which are suitable for German working adults.The fourth part is the conclusion and the shortcomings of this paper.The conclusion part summarizes the suggestions,hoping to provide reference and could help Chinese teachers in Germany to design the suitable classroom activities for German students.