Teaching of Chinese: the experience of the Moscow colleague introduced in Novosibirsk State University

Teaching of Chinese language started in Novosibirsk State University (NSU) in 1970, and today students take the course of Chinese as a first or second foreign language depending on the specialty they chosen at the Institute for Humanities. The Confucius Class project of NSU makes possible to invite Chinese and Russian experts in Chinese teaching methodology to introduce the results of their research to NSU teachers as well as to the colleague of other universities of Siberia. There were about 60 teachers of the nine cities took part in short teaching training course in January, 2018. The main lecturer, Taras Ivchenko, is a director of Confucius Institute at Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow) and one of the authors of «Xin Bian Hanyu Xin Mubiao» textbook for Russian-speaking students (Beijing, Educational Science Publishing House). The other lecturer, Vladimir Datsisheng is a historian from Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk), who’s field of scientific research include such topics as Chinese studies and Chinese teaching history in Russia, Russian-Chinese relationships and so on.