As a part of celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Confucius Institutes, the Confucius Institute for Business London, CIBL, successfully held the Fifth London Business Chinese Teacher Training Course. This training course ran from 19 September to 21 September, 2014 and was funded by Hanban and sponsored by CIBL. Nearly 30 people from the UK, the United States and so on attended the course. Mr. LI Guoqian, first secretary from Education Division of the Chinese Embassy, UK, was present at the opening ceremony and gave a warm heart-felt speech. Mr. CHEN Tongdu, director of Hanban UK and Mr. Nick Byrne, CIBL UK director, also expressed their best wishes and warmly welcomed the trainees the to the programme.
Invited by CIBL for the training course, Prof. YUAN Boping，well-known linguist from Cambridge University, Prof. ZHANG Xinsheng from Richmond University and CIBL UK director Nick Byrne delivered lectures to the trainees. Throughout the three-day training, everyone gained a clear understanding of what Chinese business teaching is and how to best to teach it. In addition, they spoke highly of the course and expressed their satisfaction in the end of course evaluations.
By the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Confucius Institutes, CIBL has successfully organized a total of five teacher training courses, and more than 260 people have attended the training. Most of them are now working in the field of overseas Chinese language teaching, playing a positive role in the dissemination of Chinese culture, the promotion of Chinese language teaching.