The Current Situation and Learning Strategies of Foreign Students in Chinese Learning Following Entrepreneurial Psychology

Based on entrepreneurial psychology, the current situation of foreign students’ use of learning strategies in Chinese learning is explored, the overall situation of learning strategies in this process is analyzed, and the relationship between foreign students’ use of learning strategies and various factors are obtained through the designed questionnaire survey. First, a questionnaire suitable for the research respondents is designed to investigate the current situation of foreign students’ use of learning strategies in Chinese learning; second, 200 questionnaires are distributed, and 195 questionnaires are recovered, with a recovery rate of 97.5%. After the invalid questionnaire is excluded, the effective rate is 95%; furthermore, the reliability of the questionnaire data is analyzed by SPSS25 software, and Cronbach’s α coefficient is 0.869, which proves that the questionnaire has high reliability; finally, the overall situation of foreign students’ use of learning strategies in Chinese learning is analyzed from the aspects of their majors, their levels of Chinese proficiency, Chinese learning time, age and personality. The results show that the frequency of using cognitive strategies in learning Chinese is the highest, with a score of 3.689; There is a positive correlation between the use of learning strategies and the degree of proficiency of Chinese; Among them, the foreign students who have studied for 2–3 years use learning strategies the most frequently, and the students aged 28–32 use learning strategies the most frequently in the Chinese level test 4. This study provides new ideas for foreign students’ Chinese teaching and has a certain reference for foreign students’ Chinese teaching strategies.

Mobile Experience in Teaching Chinese Pinyin

In New Zealand, for non-Chinese speaker learners aged 5-12, the Chinese courses provided by the Confucius Institute are usually based on the premise of increasing interest, with the main teaching goal of improving students' oral communication skills and increasing their understanding of Chinese and Asian culture. Therefore, it is an effective way to improve the quality of Chinese teaching by fully considering the students' cultural background and combining modern teaching techniques with traditional teaching content. Guided by N.S. Prabhu's task-based language teaching methods, this chapter uses a case study method to explore how to use the mobile applications and other multimedia technologies to improve the teaching effect of Chinese Pinyin in a New Zealand elementary school.

Sensing the Poetic Habitat – A Study of Middle School Chinese Teaching from the Perspectives of Life Aesthetics

The concept of life aesthetics reflects an individual’s cry for life and pursuit of beauty, inspiring individuals to discover their spiritual home, sense their poetic habitat, and enjoy the beauty of life flowing from their fingertips. Chinese education, viewed through the lens of life aesthetics, is founded on the natural characteristics of life, stimulating the aesthetic sense of individual life through the allure of language, and teaching students to view life through the aesthetic lens as well as from an understanding of life’s essence. Teachers and students are required to take an aesthetic view of life as theoretical guidance, based on core Chinese literacy, with textbook contents serving as carriers and classroom instruction as the position, closely connected to students’ actual lives, in order to help stimulate aesthetic experience among students, improve their aesthetic ability through aesthetic activities, and thus establish a correct view of life.

Analysis of Career-Advancement for Medical School Graduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Chinese Teaching Hospital

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread social and economic disruptions in the balance of labor market. Our study aims to analyze the career-advancement of medical school graduates during the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated influencing factors. We collected and compared the career-advancement data of medical school graduates at a Chinese teaching hospital from 2016 to 2020. A self-designed 20-element medical graduates employment questionnaire and a Chinese adaptation of the General self-efficacy scale were distributed by the Questionnaire Star platform. Univariate analysis (Pearson's Chi-square-test and Fisher's exact-test) and subsequent binary logistic regression were used. Findings demonstrated that the career-advancement rate of medical graduate students in 2020 is 71.3%, which is significantly lower than that for the preceding 4 years from 2016 to 2019 (p < 0.001). Of the 251 employed medical school graduates, 159 (63.3%) have signed an employment agreement or contract, 83 (33.1%) are pursuing continued education domestically, and 9 (3.6%) have offers from foreign institutions. Univariate analysis revealed statistical differences of medical graduates' employment among various specialties, oral defense completion, job search start date, CV submission times, participation in a probationary period, and self-efficacy. Significant predictors for successful employment were early job search and self-efficacy by logistic regression model (χ2 = 12.719, p < 0.001). Most medical graduates assumed that the COVID-19 pandemic had a major (40.6%) or moderate (48%) impact on career-advancement. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the career-advancement of medical school graduates in 2020. We should make adaptive changes to improve the career-advancement of medical graduates.