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Content Requirement for the Submission of the Sixth Confucius Institute Conference Reference Materials
Part One: General Information 2011Confucius Institute at Autonomous University of Yucatan
Mexico
The Confucius Institute of UADY began operations in October 2007 after signing the agreement
with HANBAN in November 2006 and later with its collaborative partner, Sun Yat-sen
University, in January of 2007. Located in the library building of the Campus of Social Sciences
of the University in Merida, Yucatan, CI-UADY has the following facilities to ensure its major
functions of Chinese language teaching: offices, classrooms, library and a multimedia self-study
centre.
MISSION: CI-UADY aims to promote the learning of Chinese Mandarin, to promote Chinese
culture in Mexico and meanwhile organize various cultural exchange activities between China
and Mexico.
AGREEMENTS: The Autonomous University of Yucatan has signed agreements with the China
National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (HANBAN) and Sun Yat-sen
University. This joint effort has provided the Confucius Institute with strong support and strength
in offering Chinese courses, such as defining the curriculum, sending Chinese teachers and
teaching materials, etc., and organizing cultural activities in the city of Merida.
During 2011, Confucius Institute at the Autonomous University of Yucatan has significantly increased the number of students of Chinese and for the first time, Chinese courses are being included as part of the curricular subjects in two faculties of the University: Economics and Law.
1. Teaching activities (Courses, content, type/level, hours of instruction, teaching materials, and number of students)
Chinese Courses
Courses Number of
groups
Content Hours per
course
No. Students
Materials
Introductory course
15 1. Learn pronunciation2. Learn how to write 30 characters3. Being able to speak basic dialogues4. Learn and experience Chinese cultura
26 229 Chinese for Beginners (CI-
UADY)
1
Level 1 7 1. Study Chinese pinyin2. Master the daily communication skills
and the classroom phrases in Chinese.3. Learn the basic composition rules of
Chinese characters.4. Learn how to write 80 basic Chinese
characters.
56 110 New Practical Chinese 1
Level 2 4 1. Strengthen the correct pronunciation of students.2. Master the basic structures of Chinese
sentences and the correct use of Chinese characters.
3. Able to conduct basic daily conversations in Chinese using the four basic language skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing.
4. Increase Chinese vocabulary after learning the rules of composing Chinese characters.
5. Master the usage of 120 common characters and phrases.
掌握 120个常用词语
56 46 New Practical Chinese 1
Level 3 2 1. Keep practicing and improving the Chinese pinyin
2. Study more Chinese grammatical structures.
3. Being able to develop more complicated and improve students’ ability to understand oral and written communication.
4. Master the usage of 200 characters.
56 18 New Practical Chinese 2
Level 4 2 1. Keep practicing and improving the Chinese pinyin.
2. Study more Chinese gramar.3. Being able to understand and speak
about topics related to culture, customs and traditions.
56 11 New Practical Chinese 2
2
4. Master the usage of 350 characters
Level 5 0 1. Keep practicing and improving the Chinese pinyin.
2. Study systematic Chinese grammar and practice their usage.
3. Understand well the cultural points essential for effective communication in daily life and specific occasions.
4. Master the usage of 600 characters
56 0 New Practical Chinese 3
Level 6 1 1. Keep practicing and improving the Chinese pinyin.
2. Study systematic Chinese grammar and practice their usage.
3. Understand well the cultural points essential for effective communication in daily life and specific occasions.
4. Master the usage of 800 characters。
56 5 New Practical Chinese 3
Summer Course for
kids
3 1. Learn basic Chinese pinyin.2. Learn basic conversations in Chinese.3. Learn and experience Chinese culture.
60 44 Chinese Paradise
Introductory Course for kids
1 1. Learn basic Chinese pinyin.2. Learn basic conversations in Chinese.3. Learn and experience Chinese culture.
24 9 Monkey King Chinese 1A
KidsLevel 1
2 1. Keep practicing Chinese pinyin.2. Practice writing Chinese characters.3. Improve oral communications in basic
Chinese4. Learn and experience Chinese culture.
26 23 Chinese Paradise 2A
Total 37 416 495 In 2010 CI-UADY had 245 students and in 2011, the number of students has doubled.
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2. Cultural and other activities, training of local teachers of Chinese (number of trainings, number of participants and impact), developing of teaching materials, and applying of graphic teaching materials.
During the year of 2011, CI-UADY has organized two China-Day Exhibitions to promote the Chinese culture in Merida Yucatan, one seminar entitled Dialogue of Sustainable Development in China and Mexico conducted by both Chinese and Mexican experts, and a series of conferences to promote the Silk-Road’s contribution to the development of the world’s art and history. In addition to the regular Chinese classes, we also opened a few new cultural classes including Chinese Calligraphy, Taijiquan, and Chinese Cooking class collaborated with a local Chinese restaurant.
In June 2011, for the first time CI-UADY sent its local Chinese teachers to participate in the teaching training programs organized by HANBAN.
Date Activity Volunteer students
N
o。Activ
ities
No。
Participants
Impact
January 30th Fifth China Day
45 14 800 Participants enjoy the culture exhibition and learnt about how Chinese people celebrate the new year
October 2nd Sixth China Day
50 14 700 Participants learn about Chinese History and National Day. Also, they had the opportunity to practice calligraphy, painting and enjoy Chinese minorities’ dances.
April and October
Chinese Cooking
Class
Teachers 1 350 Students learnt the importance of Chinese festivals and the traditional food for each celebration.
March and October
Chinese culture class: Chinese Tea
Culture,
Teachers 1 400 Students had the opportunity to familiarize with important cultural facts of the actual life in China.
4
Beijing Opera, caligraphy and Taichi
September 29th
Dialogue of Sustainable Development in China and Mexico
Two Chinese and two Mexican
experts were invited to
make academic
presentations.
1 120 Give the students the opportunity to know similarities between Mexico and China relating to the sustainable development and create consciousness between them about this world problem.
November 22nd and 23rd
Cultural Dialogues on Silk-Road
3 Spanish experts
1 200*
*Expected number of
participants
Let the students understand how the silk route promoted the cultural exchange between different countries, especially with China.
January and August
Courses promotion at Faculties
Executive Director
2 400 Promote between local, national and international students the courses at the Institute as well as the cultural activities organized by CI-UADY.
March Global Promotion of CI Official Website
Directors and teachers
7 151 Students interact between them through the website and one student won the first prize at calligraphy contest and other student won the second prize at paper cutting contest.
Total 95 students
41activities
2821 participants
This year CI-UADY increased the number of participants at cultural activities and succeeded in opening Chinese courses as credit courses in two faculties of UADY.
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Local Teacher’s Training
Date Activity Place Participants Impact
June 27th Great Wall Chinese Training
Beijing Language and
Culture University
1 local teacher
CI-UADY will install the software in the computers at the Languages’ Lab to let the students know and practice Chinese there.
October 10th -16th Chinese Language Teaching Materials
Training for Overseas Chinese Language
Teachers
Beijing Foreign Studies
University
1 local teacher
CI-UADY will prepare activities to familiarize teachers with more teaching materials by semester and to know more games and activities for doing in classes.
February-June and August-December
Training of Local Chinese Teacher and
Chinese volunteer teachers at CI-UADY
CI-UADY 13 Through observation of classes by pairs and discussion of teaching materials and activities, CI-UADY teachers had been able to improve their teaching quality and to learn from other teachers about special needs of Mexican students.
Total 15 Apply new techniques and materials at the Institute to improve the Chinese language classes.
3. Implementation of Headquarters key projects4.
Date Activity Place Participants Impact
May 12th Chinese Bridge Competition
National Autonomous University of Mexico
2 First time CI-UADY participated in the contest. Students were very exciting about representing the Institute.
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(UNAM)
May and June HSK 1HSK 2HSK 3
CI-UADY 3197
More than 90% of students approved the HSK 1, 100% of HSK 2 candidates approved the exam, and 100% of HSK 3 candidates approved.
March CI-Scholarships CI-UADY 11 Nine students were awarded the Confucius scholarship to study at the University of Sun Yat-sen for one academic year from September 2011 to July 2012.Two students got the four-week scholarship studying at the same university in July this year.
Total 60 This year the demand for CI-Scholarships increased significantly as well as the HSK candidates.
Part two: New Projects and Impacts
New Project: Evaluation and update of Chinese language programs at CI-UADY
No. Project names Goal Stage(s) of ImplementationEvaluation of current
impact
1Training of CI-UADY teachers
To improve the teaching quality so as to attract more students to learn Chinese as well as to maintain the present interest in learning the language.
- According to the training plan, all the teachers first analyze the teaching effects of different levels of the previous and present semesters.-Adjust class activities and teaching materials to the content of each level.-Class observation and feedbacks among teachers.-Conduct teaching evaluations by students.
The teaching evaluation had given CI-UADY the opportunity to know their teaching advantages and disadvantages. Teachers are working very hard to improve their teaching methods and they have, during the training sessions, the chance to share and discuss their ideas.
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2Intensive Courses
at Summer
To satisfy the demand of courses for beginners
Promotion of courses during MayCI-UADY opened three classes at the Institute, two classes at the Faculty of Economics and one class at a Public Technologic Institute.
More than 60 students registered to this intensive course and most of them continued to the regular course Level 1 at the Institute.The Chinese class at Faculty of Economics is opened as credited optional course.
3Cultural courses
To motivate students’ interest about China and its culture.
Promotion of different cultural courses to students.Besides the cultural class offered at the regular courses (one class), the CI-UADY offered 2 cultural courses (10 classes): calligraphy and taichi.
Calligraphy course captured the interest of most students. Taichi course, on the other side, captured the interest of the local community.
4 Chinese Corner
To motivate students to keep studying ChineseTo give them the opportunity to practice oral communication
Choose a place and time to have the clubPromote the club between the studentsChoose topics to be discussed by sessionSelect teachers to host the Chinese club
No too many students are participating at this moment. However, day to day increase the number of permanent participants at the activity.
5International
Seminars
Promote the mutual understanding of Chinese and Mexican people.
Dialogue of Sustainable Development in China and Mexico
Cultural Dialogues on Silk-Road
300 participantsKnow if China and Mexico share similarities of differences between different topics as: culture, sustainable development, world economic crisis, democracy, poverty, etc.
Part three: Major events and media coverage1. Major Events
Date Activity Volunteer NNo。
Impact
8
studentso。Activit
ies
Participants
January 30th Fifht China Day
45 14 800 Participants enjoy the culture exhibition and learnt about how Chinese people celebrate the new year
October 2nd Sixth China Day
50 14 700 Participants learn about Chinese History and National Day. Also, they had the opportunity to practice calligraphy, painting and enjoy Chinese minorities’ dances.
September 29th
Dialogue Mexico-China
for Sustainable
Development
4 experts 1 120 Give the students the opportunity to know similarities between Mexico and China relating to the sustainable development and create consciousness between them about this world problem.
November 22nd and
23rd
Cultural Dialogues at
the Silk Route
3 experts 1 200* Let the students understand how the silk route promoted the cultural exchange between different countries, especially with China.
April, June and October
Chinese Food Preparation
Class
teachers 12 229 Students learnt what are the traditional food for special celebrations in China and learnt how to prepare Chinese dumplings and tangyuan.
September Promotion of Courses at
Mass Media
Directors Radio interview
2 Local radio and University radio gave IC-UADY, through interviews, some
9
minutes to promote the Chinese courses as well as the cultural activity China Day.
*Expected number of participants
2. Relevant comments and mainstream media coverage1. “China Day” cultural activities
Diario de Yucatán（See attachment 1.）
Por Esto（See Attachment 2.）
Website coverage of Diario de Yucatán（See attachment 3.）
http://www.yucatan.com.mx/20111003/nota-7/181420-la-cultura-de-china--llega-a-los-
meridanos.htm
Website of Autonomous University of Yucatan（See attachment 4）
http://www.uady.mx/sitios/prensa/boletin.html
Website of Confucius Online（See attachment 5）
http://www.chinese.cn/college/article/2011-10/14/content_354949.htm Website of Sun Yat-sen University
http://ci.sysu.edu.cn/Item/448.aspx
2. International seminars
Por Esto（See attachment 6）
Website of Autonomous University of Yucatanhttp://www.uady.mx/sitios/prensa/boletines/sep-11/30-sep-11.html
3. HSK News coverage of Xinhua Net
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2011-06/26/c_121586074.htm Website of Hanban Website of Sun Yat-sen University Website of Autonomous University of Yucatan
4. Course closing ceremony News coverage of Xinhua Net
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2011-06/01/c_121483914.htm Local news website in Yucatan
http://www.sipse.com/noticias/105789-egresa-primera-generacion-instituto-
10
confucio-uady.html
5. Chinese cuisine class News coverage of Diario de Yucatán (See attachment 8)
6. Chinese course promotion
Website coverage of Diario de Yucatán（See attachment 9）
Website of Autonomous University of Yucatan http://sp.riuady.uady.mx/sitios/ic/default.aspx
Part four: Difficulties and Feature Plans Difficulty: Late approval of CI-UADY 2011Budget. The software for 2012 budget
application does not work properly.
Future Plans:
Plans: Improve the teaching quality of Chinese language culture and Chinese cultural
courses as well as to increase the number of cultural activities
Increase the number of credit courses at the Faculties of the Autonomous University of
Yucatan
Offer the exam YCT to primary and secondary students
Offer the HSK oral examination at the CI-UADY and promote the Institute as an
Examination Center of Chinese language proficiency in the southeast area of Mexico
Increase the number of participants in the Chinese Corner
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Attachment 1
News coverage of ¨China Day¨ cultural activities on the local newspaper Diario de Yucatán:
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Attachment 2
News coverage on the local newspaper Por Esto:
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Attachment 3
News coverage on the webite of Diario de Yucatán:
http://www.yucatan.com.mx/20111005/nota-7/181370-se-realizo-la-vi-expo-conoce-china-de-la-uady.htm
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Attachment 4
News coverage on the website of Autonomous University of Yucatan
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Attachment 5
News coverage of the website of Confucius Online:
18
19
Attachment 6
News coverage on the local newspaper Por Esto:
20
Attachment 7
New coverage of Xinhua Net:
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Attachment 8
News coverage of Chinese cuisine class on the local newspaper:
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Attachment 9
Chinese course promotion
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