There were more than 19,530 Chinese textbooks in the Global Chinese Textbook Library as at 2020 (Yanlei Li, 2024). These textbooks can be divided into classroom textbooks and non-class textbooks:

  • Classroom textbooks include textbooks focusing on teaching and learning comprehensive skills and special skills, as well as textbooks ranging from general Chinese to special Chinese. “Practical Chinese Textbook” is an example of comprehensive / general Chinese, and “Speaking Textbook”, “Listening Textbook” and “Chinese Characters Workbook” are for teaching and learning of specific aspects of Chinese language.
  • Non-classroom teaching materials include reading materials, self-study materials, practical manuals, reference books, examination guidance materials, teachers development materials, and various outlines.

Classroom textbooks can be further classified in the following ways:

  • Level of learners: beginning, elementary, intermediate, advanced
  • Type of schools: kindergarten, primary school, secondary school, university
  • Teaching medium, skill category (comprehensive, listening, speaking, reading, writing, translation)
  • Language element (phonetics, Chinese characters, vocabulary, grammar and sentence patterns).

For purposes of circulation and distribution of Chinese textbooks and teaching materials, and ease of searching, the CTC’s classification of Chinese textbooks and materials are

Reference

Yanlei Li 2024 Research on Promotion of the Collection of International Chinese Language Education Materials in University Libraries: Based on the Library of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, March 2024 Journal of Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering 2(1):48-None DOI:10.62517/jike.202404106