preparing for the programme “Let’s set up a Wechat group”, Dr Sheng Shuangxia, our Chinese Director, suggested upon meeting this year’s participants of the Summer Intensive Language Programme in China. This was during their induction back in June, preparing them for the exciting trip they were about to embark on. From 7-20 July, 13…
READ TEN THOUSAND BOOKS, TRAVEL TEN THOUSAND MILES ‘Read ten thousand books, Travel ten thousand miles’ (读万卷书，行万里路) is a famous Chinese proverb. This well-known saying means there are two different paths for people to acquire knowledge; one, through a word-mediated tradition and the other to directly experience the infinite and expansive world around us. Taking…
On Friday 28thJune, London sparkled in the glowing sunshine whilst Kings College London hosted a wonderful rich packed programme for their International Symposium on Intercultural Communication and Chinese Language Teaching. There were lots of stories, experiences and projects being shared amongst this community of Chinese Teachers, who came from far and wide, representing different Universities…
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Our Free Teaching Training Day in May at Oxford Brookes University was such a success that teachers are wanting more. We would love to hear from you if you and the University or School you work for would be interested in working with us to co-host and deliver more Free Training Days. To find…
Don’t miss this opportunity to attend the Symposium on Friday 28th June at Kings College London. This one day event will bring together Mandarin Teachers from far and wide to not only share their wisdom and stories but to also attend what promises to be fascinating talks given by the Keynote Speakers: Dr. Lianyi Song…
Teacher Training Day at Oxford Brookes University on 11 May 2019 The Confucius Institute at Oxford Brookes University and Macmillan Education co-hosted a very successful and well attended Teacher training day for teachers of Mandarin on Saturday 11 May at Oxford Brookes University. The aim of the event was to demonstrate using Discover…
Our newsletter CLTalk in the past, not only provided a wonderful insight in to what is happening in the world of Chinese teaching, it also presented a great opportunity in which Chinese Teachers could learn from and share knowledge. We at Macmillan Education recognise how important this was and so we would like to relaunch…
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