A Specialised Training On Enhancing Teachers' Pedagogical Skills Under the International Chinese Language Education Standards 2025 (Bulgarian Session) Has Been Conducted At the Confucius Institute In Sofia.
On 15th February 2025, the special training workshop for improving the teaching abilities of the teachers under the guidance of the 2025 International Chinese Language Education Standards (Bulgarian session) has been conducted at the Confucius Institute in Sofia. The training has been sponsored by the Centre for Language Education and Cooperation at the Ministry of Education of PR China, and has been hosted by the Confucius Institute in Sofia. The workshop has been attended by more than 60 local, international and volunteer teachers from the two Confucius Institutes in Bulgaria, as well as by Chinese and Bulgarian students involved in the Chinese language teaching at the University of Sofia and in the New Bulgarian University in the online and the offline formats.
Mrs Hao Meiling – a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, has explained how to use the International Chinese Language Standards For Chinese Language Education (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Standards’) as a guide for classroom teaching, and has introduced the application of the vocabulary standards in the Chinese language teaching in Europe with a wealth of vivid teaching examples. Mrs Wang Zulei - an associate professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, has compared the Standards with the relevant language standards of the European countries, and has provided the teachers with targeted teaching references on cultural teaching under the guidance of the Standards. Mr Yang Tian - Head of the Department For Education at the Chinese Embassy in Bulgaria, has awarded certificates of completion to some of the teachers who have participated in the offline training format.
The two-day training workshop has been aimed at helping Bulgarian Chinese language teachers to gain a deeper understanding and to achieve a better implementation of the international standards related to the Chinese language education, as well as to improve their Chinese language teaching standards and competences. The teachers who have participated in the training have said that they have greatly benefitted from the training by combining theory and teaching practice, and that what they have learned would be applied in full into their Chinese teaching practices in the future.
Confucius Institute Sofia
Text: Chen Chen
Photos: Chen Zhujun, Lu Ziyuan
Editors: Prof. Chen Ying, Aksiniya Koleva
English translation: Maya Kostadinova
Picture 1. An online lecture by Prof.Hao Meiling from the Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Picture 2. An online lecture by Assoc.Prof. Wang Zulei from the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU).
Picture 3. The site of the training workshop.
Picture 4. A group photo of the participants on site.