Affiliated to the College of Chinese Language and Culture Nankai University,China, with its secretariat established, the Linguistics Theory and Language Education Research Branch of International Society for Chinese Language Teachingis committed to serving the world, laying a solid theoretical foundation of the disciplines, deepening teaching practice and research, and promoting the development and academic activities of international Chinese education.

Asan international society registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, International Society for Chinese Language Teaching (ISCLT) was established in Beijing on August 14, 1987. Its predecessor was China Society for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, which was founded in June 1983. Our University was the founding intitution, and Professor Sun Hui fromour College served as director of the first session of the Board of Directors. International Society for Chinese Language Teaching is anon-profit international non-governmental academic organization composed of people and relevant institutions engaged in teaching,research and promotion of the Chinese language all over the world.ISCLT was registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, and is managed by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, headquartered in Beijing, China. At present, our College is ISCLT’s member. Based onthe needs for development, through extensive discussion at the 11^thAnnual Conference of ISCLT held in Changsha, China, in December 2019,ISCLT decided to establish the Linguistics Theory and Language Education Research Branch of International Society for Chinese Language Teaching,whose operation is affiliated to our College. The Linguistics Theoryand Language Education Research Branch aims to study and explore the relationship between general linguistics and pedagogical linguistics,the relationship between teaching grammar and theoretical grammar,and the relationship between first language acquisition and second language acquisition. It not only instructs the specific teaching practice of international Chinese education, but also responds to,explores and solves the tough academic problems related to language teaching. Meanwhile, it is committed to organizing international exchanges and cooperation in the field of Chinese language teaching,organizing the development of standards, carrying out teaching reform experiments, and discovering, cultivating, evaluating and promoting excellent achievements.

As one of the top ten Chinese language teaching bases recognized by the Ministry of Education, with a strong research team in linguistics and Chinese language teaching, our College has always enjoyed a high reputation in the field of international Chinese education in China.The establishment of the Linguistics Theory and Language Education Research Branch of ISCLT in our College will promote the development of linguistics, applied linguistics and international Chinese education in our University, and advance Nankai University’s contributions to Chinese language teaching in the world.