A group of 21 Chinese volunteer teachers dispatched by the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) arrived in Germany on Oct 14, 2008. After a short-term training in Germany, they will be dispersed amongst 21 secondary schools in 10 states, including Berlin, for one year of volunteer Chinese teaching service.
These volunteers are graduates or post graduates students majoring in German or teaching of Chinese as a foreign language to Germans, from universities including Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing Language and Culture University, Nanjing University, Communication University of China, Liaoning University, Dalian University of Foreign Language, Xi'an International Studies University and Tianjin Foreign Studies University.
Ma Jianfei, Deputy Director of the Hanban encouraged the volunteers to always bear in mind their "sense of honor, responsibility and mission", and contribute to Chinese language teaching in Germany as well as China-Germany cultural exchanges. Before the volunteers' departure for Germany, Hanban held a month of vocational training for the group.
In 2007, Hanban and the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Educational and Cultural Affairs of German States (KMK) jointly launched the exchange program for Chinese-German Foreign Language Teaching Assistants. And eight volunteers were subsequently sent by Hanban to Germany to teach Chinese in secondary schools as assistant teachers. Their performance was highly praised. At Germany's request, the number of volunteer Chinese assistant teachers this year was increased to 21.
By People's Daily Online
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