To help mandarin teachers in Indonesia in developing their teaching skills and ability, Taiwan Education Center (TEC) Indonesia – Yogyakarta has held a training program called “2023 Online Mandarin Teacher Training” by using Google Meet as the platform, on Saturday and Sunday (September 9-10, 2022).

This program was arranged by TEC Yogyakarta in collaboration with the Mandarin Learning Center (MLC) of Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU), Taiwan. The instructors who taught the participants during the program were all native Chinese speakers from MLC-CYCU. During this program, the instructors explained several materials to the participants such as Chinese Listening and Speaking Pedagogy, Chinese Character and Vocabulary Instruction, Effective Chinese Reading and Writing Tactics, and Teaching Chinese using ChatGPT: Lesson Preparation.

The participants who have joined this program mostly come from professional fields such as lecturers from the Chinese Department, high school Mandarin teachers and there were also some participants who are still university students of the Chinese Department but already had some experiences in teaching Mandarin as private teachers. Some of them also had experiences as Mandarin interpreters in formal occasions.

Even though this program was only held for two days, there were many benefits such as knowledge and information that have been shared to the participants. Overall, the participants really enjoyed the training and they showed big enthusiasm during the class. The instructors were all giving their best performance in teaching the participants and made this program a success.