The dilemma in Chinese acquisition for non-English international students in China

Abstract

With the development of the internationalization of higher education in China, an increasing number of international students with different nationalities, cultural backgrounds, and language backgrounds have come to China to further their studies. Some of them speak English as their mother tongue, but some do not. However, most Chinese teachers in China only know English as a foreign language, and most Chinese materials for foreigners are edited in English. Therefore, Chinese classes for international students are generally carried out with English as an auxiliary language, which meets the needs of many students but leaves others unserved. This research takes the international students of Huzhou University in China as research samples and finds a noticeable gap between the native and the non-native English speakers in their Chinese acquisition.4 Based on this finding, this article finally puts forward a series of teaching reform suggestions for Chinese teachers in China