Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

Project meeting in Olomouc, Czech Republic in February 2024;
Source: CZ project team at Palacky University

About ChinGram (ID 2023-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000157248)

The ChinGram project is funded by the Erasmus+ program for the period from December 2023 to November 2026.

The aim of the project is to improve the quality of Chinese language teaching through the development of a digital Chinese Grammar Platform (ChinGram) and to meet the general need for comprehensible digital learning materials through the platform.

ChinGram will provide grammatical description, interactive exercises, and teacher support resources to about 100 grammatical points in 6 EU languages (English, German, Danish, Czech, Italian and Polish). The multilingual learning platform will reflect both commonalities and differences between European languages and Chinese, based on the rich experience of Chinese language teachers and researchers of linguistically diverse learners.

Overall, the project is committed to strongly promote transnational co-operation and joint research in the field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

Investigators and partners

The principal investigators at HU Berlin are Prof. Henning Klöter and Dr. Chin-hui Lin.

The cooperation partners are:

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland)
• Aarhus Universityl, Aarhus (Denmark)
• Palacky University, Olomouc (Czech Republic)
• University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples (Italy)

ChinGram activities will comprise:

• development of a web with online learning platform for Chinese grammar and learners' data collection system;
• meetings, lectures and trainings for know-how exchange, know-how transfer and building partnership;
• research and data analysis leading to conference presentations and publishing joint research papers; and
• dissemination activities (workshops, conference presentations) to apply the outcomes in education and share them with stakeholders.

The main project objectives are:

• long-term partnership with shared know-how in Chinese language teaching methodologies and research;
• plans and guidelines for project operations;
• online ChinGram platform for learners and teachers of Chinese with data collection system;
• research papers related to project topic and data analysis;
• implementation and dissemination of ChinGram in Chinese language education in EU reaching out to new partners for further up-scaling of ChinGram.