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Team Success in the International Chinese Education Micro-Lecture Contest

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Our Confucius Institute’s teaching series, “Liverpool – Xi’an Cultural Micro-Lecture Series”, has won Second Prize in the Outstanding Digital Course Award at China’s 7th International Chinese Education Micro-Lecture Contest. The competition was jointly organised by, among others, Peking, Beijing Normal University, Chinese Teachers (Thailand Association) and Beijing Tang Chinese Education Technology Group.

The series consisted of eight short courses, each ten minutes long, developed by members of our team, exploring the historical and cultural connections between Liverpool and Xi’an from different perspectives:

 

  1. A Tale of Two Cities: Liverpool and Xi’an – An Overview – Penny Ding
  2. Urban Memories of Liverpool and Xi’an – Jin Rong
  3. Liverpool and Xi’an: A Shared Passion for Football Across Time and Space – Liu Ying (XJTU)
  4. Crossing Boundaries, Fusion and New Voices: A Musical Tale of Liverpool and Xi’an – Peng Lei
  5. Tracing Food Origins: Liverpool and Xi’an Through Food – Chen Sen
  6. “Scouse, Liaozhalie!”: Liverpool and Xi’an Through Language – Li Xinyu (XJTU)
  7. Cities in Poetry: From Liverpool to Xi’an – Wang Wenjie
  8. Cities Connecting the World: Liverpool and Xi’an, Routes Past and Present – Li Ke

 

We were also delighted that LCI received the Best Organisation Award, alongside several leading universities, including Wuhan University, Shandong University and Communication University of China. Dr Penny Ding and Ms Hao Liu were also recognised individually with Outstanding Instructor Awards. The award ceremony will take place in Beijing at the end of the year. 

Dr Penny Ding, Deputy Director of the Confucius Institute and academic lead and mentor of the Teaching Series, said, “I’m particularly pleased because this was very much a team effort, bringing together our teaching expertise of two partner universities with Liverpool and Xi’an’s sister-city connections and presenting the two cities through language, history, music, football, food, transport and poetry. The teaching series was designed primarily for students at HSK Level 4 and above, broadly equivalent to intermediate level. However, with subtitles provided throughout, the series should appeal to a much wider audience. It could also be a useful resource for Modern Languages and university students, as well as members of the public with an interest in Liverpool and Xi’an, or in Chinese language and culture more broadly. I would also like to thank Mike Bayless, Chen Sen and Amina Li for their invaluable technical support with the recording, editing and production of the teaching materials.”