A Roundtable on Confucius Institutes’ Future Direction of Academic Standards and Operation

Roundtable on  Confucius Institutes’ Future Direction of Academic Standard and Operation

Panel 1 –  Keynote Speech

Keynote Speaker 1:  Dr. Wei HONG,  Director of the Confucius Institute at Purdue University, USA – Vision and Impact of CI: the Purdue Practice

Keynote Speaker 2: Dr. Shuangyuan SHI, Director of China International Strategy and Confucius Institute of the New South Wales Department of Education, Australia

Q & A session

Panel 2 – Discussion Session

Speaker 1: Prof. ZHOU Xiaobing, President of School of Chinese as A Second Language of Sun Yat-Sen University, China (Moderator)

Focal topic: 基於教材庫的國際漢語教材發展研究

Speaker 2: Dr. Maria Teresa de Salter Cid Gonçalves Rocha PIRES, Director of Confucius Institute of the University of Lisbon, Portugal

Focal topic:  Confucius Institutes’ future direction of academic standards and operation: An administrative and collaborative Perspective

Speaker 3: Prof. Chan Shui Duen, Former Director of Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, China

Focal topic: How non-Chinese-speaking children are taught Chinese in the Hong Kong context

Speaker 4: Prof. Neo Peng Fu, Director of the Confucius Institute at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore  Focal topic: Confucius Institutes’ Future Direction of Academic Standards and Operation: A Curriculum Perspective

Conclusion by the representative from the Headquarter of Confucius Institute (10 mins)

Discussion session