Tea is an essential cultural element in international Chinese language education. Integrating education for international understanding into tea culture teaching, guiding international students to approach Chinese tea culture and share their respective countries' tea culture and its connotations through cross-cultural dialogue and comparison can help students understand differences while recognizing cultural commonalities, and enable them to personally perceive the historical pulse of economic and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.
Under the guidance of Zhou Dan, a teacher from the School of Overseas Education at Sichuan University (SCU), Du Yuxiang, a part-time teacher of the "Chinese Culture" course, conducted a control group experiment using international students of "Chinese Culture-2" as the experimental group and "Chinese Culture-1" as the control group to carry out reform in tea culture teaching.
The experimental group adopted teaching content and methods in line with the concept of education for international understanding, while the control group stuck to previous teaching content and forms. By comparing the two groups in terms of knowledge mastery, learning efficiency, attitude presentation and action practice, the teachers tested the feasibility and effectiveness of deeply integrating international understanding education into Chinese culture teaching.
The comparison has revealed that the integration of international understanding education can, to some extent, enhance the recognition and understanding of Chinese culture among international students in China, effectively improve their cultural tolerance awareness, innovative application ability, and willingness to actively participate. The depth and breadth of their cultural understanding are more extensive.
This is another "localization" practice by SCU to integrate international understanding education into the Chinese culture teaching. It is also a positive exploration of the SCU's cross-cultural competence cultivation for international students.
