Teaching chinese language in universities through digital instruments

Abstract

The higher education system of the Russian Federation faces the task of preparing successful specialists with a high level of formation of basic professional competencies. The article deals with the process of teaching Chinese in a professionally oriented environment of the university. As an example, the training of media workers who are able to build a mutually productive dialogue with representatives of different cultures and nationalities is given. As the students note, in the future, knowledge of the Chinese language will provide them with advancement in life biography and professional career, education and communications. In practical classes of the Chinese language, NEFU teachers use a wide range of active teaching methods. But with the introduction of digital didactics, learning tools are also changing. The authors tried to analyze mobile applications, Internet resources and Chinese language training programs such as: «Chinese Skill», «Train Chinese», «Hello Chinese» and others. The description and characteristics of the developed author’s digital educational tool «Golden Lotus» for teaching the Chinese language to future journalists are presented.