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ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 has not only changed people’s life-style, but also has changed our teaching concepts and methods. It causes sudden transition from classroom teaching to virtual teaching and then hybrid teaching. This presents a special challenge to language instruction which requires mutual communication between instructor and students as well as communication among students. First, by tracing the history of distance learning, this paper introduces the developmental stages of distance education, and the communication technology conditions behind them. Second, the background and current situation of Chinese language distance education is introduced. Third, after discussing the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning, the complementary relationship between virtual and face-to-face Chinese instruction, the ideal teaching mode and corresponding teaching strategies are discussed.

KEYWORDS

distance education, classroom and virtual instruction, communication technology, hybrid mode

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Sino-US English Teaching, November 2022, Vol. 19, No. 11, 395-404 doi:10.17265/1539-8072/2022.11.003

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