Taiwan Education Center (TEC) Indonesia Yogyakarta Regional Office held a sharing session entitled “Learning Chinese 101: Introduction to TOCFL” on Wednesday (29/6/2022) via Google Meet. In this agenda, TEC invited Ms. Teresa Lin (Testing Coordinator, Division of Test Extension, TOCFL) from Steering Committee for the Test of Proficiency-Huayu (SC-TOP) Taiwan. The Committee of SC-TOP aims to develop and promote an effective Chinese assessment system, mainly the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL; formerly known as TOP), for Chinese learners worldwide to assess their Chinese proficiency.

This agenda was held to give the participants an insight of learning Chinese especially on getting to know and preparing for TOCFL test. Ms. Lin explained in detail regarding TOCFL from what is TOCFL, what is required to pass the bands in TOCFL, why is it necessary to take this test, and many others. After delivering her presentation, Ms. Lin discussed with the moderator and participants afterwards.

The sharing session was opened for public, and the participants varied from high school students, university students to lecturers from all over Indonesia. There were more than 300 people who would like to join this agenda, but only 100 lucky participants could join it. This agenda was full of excitement and the participants were very active in taking notes of the presentation and asking many questions to Ms. Lin.