Keats School is a Chinese language school in China which has an eight-year experience inteaching Chinese as a foreign language. When you attend to Keats School, you can choose Mandarin Chinese one-on-one program and semester Chinese program as well as network Chinese teaching program. Most of the foreign students are from western countries. Recently,teachers at Keats school carried out a new method for Chinese spoken language teaching. The method named Four-stage Training Technique is greatly welcomed and loved by the overseas students who learn Chinese in China. By using this way, teachers train students’ language ability by processing the following fourstages in order: accuracy, fluency, appropriateness and flexibility. After designing some simulated training of the improvisational conditions forstudent, learners can apply the learned language knowledge to oral expressions flexibly. Then, it is important for the overseas students to communicate with Chinese people in the real context with some assigned tasks. It is an advantage to learn Chinese in China because you can do it only in China. The real Chinese language environment isvery beneficial to train the flexibility in speaking Chinese.

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