Research On Objectives Of Investment In Chinese Learning For TCSOL Foreign Students

In an era of globalization characterized by mobility,China's government has formulated a series of policy to promote international communication of Chinese and internationalization of higher education.As a localized group for the international communication of Chinese,foreign students majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages(TCSOL)play an important part in that process.The education of TCSOL foreign students has received much attention from academic in recent years.However,most of the existing research pays no attention to their Chinese learning objectives.Drawing on the training objectives and relevant supporting policies for TCSOL foreign students,informed by the model of language learner investment by Darvin and Norton(2015)and based on the Q-methodology and in-depth interviews,this study explores the objectives of investment in Chinese learning for TCSOL foreign students and the factors influencing them.The findings reveals that objectives of investment in language learning at the micro level deserve more attention,and that the TCSOL students' investment in Chinese learning is characterized by diversification,dynamic and contradiction.Objectives of investment in Chinese learning for TCSOL foreign students mainly involve the following three types,economic capital and cultural capital-driven investment objectives,economic capital-led investment objectives,and cultural capital and experience-oriented investment objectives.They are generally affected by learners' ideology pertaining to Chinese and their existing and imagined identity.Therefore,it is necessary to explore the training objectives of TCSOL major in our nation,so that the objectives of investment in Chinese learning for TCSOL foreign students will be in line with them.Meanwhile,to produce high-quality TCSOL talents and encourage TCSOL students' investment in Chinese,teachers should guide foreign students to form diversified Chinese learning investment objectives.