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automation of oral Chinese test, and thus contribute to the Chinese language
teaching," Prof. Zhang said. He also highly appreciated PKU's cooperation with
Pearson and expected future progress by the collaboration. "Mutual cooperation will
achieve much more than individual effort," Mr. Kubach responded to Peking
University, the top institution of Chinese teaching and research, which recruits more
than 1,000 overseas students of the language annually in both long-term and
additional training programs, and has joined with nine foreign counterparts to build
Confucius Institutes since 2006.
Prof. Zhang then inaugurated the Research Center of Chinese Oral Proficiency Test,
and announced the full list of the expert committee. On behalf of the committee, Prof.
Li Xiaoqi, Dean of PKU International College for Chinese Language Studies (ICCLS)
and director of the office of the research center, delivered a speech, emphasizing
that this would make up the blank of the automation of Chinese language oral test.
Representatives from both sides then introduced the current process of this program,
showing their confidence in future cooperation.
After the ceremony, the first round of the expert committee meeting was held at
Linhuxuan later in the afternoon, covering plans and future operations of the program
in detail.
Prof. Xiao Qun, Executive Vice Director of PKU Office of Humanities and Social
Sciences, presided over the event.
Pearson Education is an international PreK-20 educational publishing company of
textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. It was
created in 1998 when Pearson purchased the education division of Simon &
Schuster and merged it with its own education division, Addison—Wesley Longman.
Pearson Education is headquartered in Boston, MA, Glenview, IL, Chandler, AZ and
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. It is part of Pearson PLC, which is
headquartered in London, England, UK, with offices in Harlow and Oxford.
Its businesses and brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison
Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, PASeries, ELLis, Celebration Press,
PEMSolutions, SuccessMaker, Waterford, and Family Education Network. Pearson's
other primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.
Edited By : Jacques
Translated By : He Chenlu
Source : PKUOIR and ICCLS
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