A Brief Introduction to the Author of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Liu Xun, 1940, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, is Professor beijing language and culture university. 196 1 graduated from the Chinese Department of East China Normal University and then from the English Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University. He studied language teaching theory at Ohio State University, served as a member of the national academic expert advisory group on teaching Chinese as a foreign language, a member of the national Chinese proficiency test advisory committee, and a Chinese teaching consultant of the New York State Department of Education. He has taught or lectured in Yugoslavia, the United States, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and Macau. He has long been engaged in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, academic research, compiling Chinese textbooks, developing language tests, teaching undergraduate and graduate students, advanced teachers at home and abroad and related administrative work. He has presided over or independently compiled six sets of textbooks for teaching Chinese as a foreign language, including Practical Chinese Textbooks (1-4 volumes), Children's Chinese and New Practical Chinese Textbooks, written an Introduction to Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, edited an Introduction to Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and published many papers.