Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 99 3rd International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE-17) The present Situation and Enlightenment of Chinese Teacher Training in Malaysia Kehua Yu Overseas Education College of Xiamen University China
[email protected] Abstract—Malaysia retains a complete system of Chinese education and Chinese teachers’ role as the machine tool of II. THE UNIQUE ADVANTAGES OF CHINESE TEACHER Malaysian Chinese education. This paper is designed to provide DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYSIA reference for the training of international Chinese teachers by Thanks to globalization and China’ role as the world’s analyzing the unique advantages of Chinese teachers’ second largest economy, the “Chinese fever” continues to rise development in Malaysia, and teasing out the present situation, worldwide. Since the 1990s, the Malaysian government has characteristics and existing problems of Chinese teachers training. been increasingly open to Chinese education as it began to change its long-term single language education policy of “One Keywords—Malaysia, Chinese teachers, teacher training, country, one language, and one source of origin”. Malaysian enlightenment government officials and non-Chinese people have all followed the trend of learning Chinese and Malaysians are more intended to learn Chinese as the second language. In order to I. INTRODUCTION meet the needs of the sustainable development of domestic With a history of nearly 200 years, Malaysia’s Chinese Chinese education, the Malaysian government, United Chinese education has retained a complete system of Chinese education School Committee’s Association of Malaysia (UCSCAM), from pre-school, elementary, secondary to higher education. At United Chinese School Teachers’ Association of Malaysia present, Chinese courses are given not only in Chinese schools, (UCSCTAM), private secondary schools, private Chinese but in the major national system including elementary, institutions of higher learning, Confucius Institute secondary to higher education.