Can Tasks Be Used to Teach Chinese Culture at the Beginner Level?

In the autumn term of 2011, the Confucius Institute for Learning and Innovation (CI) at Aalborg University (AAU) offered a Chinese course as part of an international program at Gug School. The course introduced Chinese culture and information about modern China as well as limited Chinese language. In this course, the teacher tried to combine the culture with the language by using tasks, games and lectures. As more and more tasks were introduced in culture and language teaching, the students’ motivation improved and they became more active and involved in the classroom. This chapter describes the background, content and methods of the teaching in detail, and also discusses the exploration and application of using tasks as a method in this course