The Competencies of Blingo Chinese Platform Novice Teachers in Online Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language

Abstract

As a result of COVID-19 worldwide, countries around the world have been affected to varying degrees. The shift from offline to online teaching Chinese as a foreign language course, many teaching Chinese as a foreign language teacher has little or no experience on online teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The aim of this research was to understand the teachers’ competencies of 265 novice teachers of online teaching Chinese as a foreign language on the Blingo Chinese Platform as well as their views on online teaching of Chinese as a foreign language. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, this research explored the views of novice teachers of online teaching Chinese as a foreign language as well as teachers’ competencies.

The research found that novice teachers agreed with online teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and that teaching experience and online teaching experience influenced novice teachers’ views to a certain extent. In addition, the research found the competencies that novice teachers on the Blingo Chinese Platform should have were, for instance, knowledge of Chinese culture, basic knowledge of Chinese language, knowledge of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, classroom organization and management competencies, observation, adaptability, and generalization competencies. The findings showed that novice teachers should maintain an enthusiastic teaching outlook and needed to keep learning relevant knowledge to improve themselves and create a favorable teaching environment. Novice teachers need to strengthen their professional knowledge and theories, participate in relevant teaching training, increase the opportunities to communicate with colleagues, and learn classroom skills from excellent teachers.