The Confucius Institute at the Autonomous University of Yucatan (CI-UADY) in Mexico has significantly increased its Chinese language program and cultural activities in 2011. The number of students learning Chinese doubled from 245 in 2010 to 495 in 2011. In addition to regular Chinese language courses, CI-UADY offered new cultural classes in calligraphy, tai chi, and Chinese cooking. CI-UADY also organized various cultural exhibitions and academic conferences that reached over 2,800 participants. To improve its programs, CI-UADY sent a teacher for training in China and provided training for its local teachers. It also started evaluating and updating its Chinese language programs.

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Content Requirement for the Submission of the Sixth Confucius Institute Conference
Reference Materials
Part One: General Information 2011
Confucius Institute at Autonomous University of Yucatan
Mexico
The Confucius Institute of UADY began operations in October 2007 after signing the agreement
with HANBAN in November 2006 and later with its collaborative partner, Sun Yat-sen
University, in January of 2007. Located in the library building of the Campus of Social Sciences
of the University in Merida, Yucatan, CI-UADY has the following facilities to ensure its major
functions of Chinese language teaching: offices, classrooms, library and a multimedia self-study
centre.
MISSION: CI-UADY aims to promote the learning of Chinese Mandarin, to promote Chinese
culture in Mexico and meanwhile organize various cultural exchange activities between China
and Mexico.
AGREEMENTS: The Autonomous University of Yucatan has signed agreements with the China
National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (HANBAN) and Sun Yat-sen
University. This joint effort has provided the Confucius Institute with strong support and strength
in offering Chinese courses, such as defining the curriculum, sending Chinese teachers and
teaching materials, etc., and organizing cultural activities in the city of Merida.
During 2011, Confucius Institute at the Autonomous University of Yucatan has significantly
increased the number of students of Chinese and for the first time, Chinese courses are being
included as part of the curricular subjects in two faculties of the University: Economics and Law.
1. Teaching activities (Courses, content, type/level, hours of instruction, teaching materials, and
number of students)
Chinese Courses
Courses Number
of
groups
Content Hours
per
course
No.
Students
Materials
Introductory
course
15 1. Learn pronunciation
2. Learn how to write 30 characters
3. Being able to speak basic dialogues
4. Learn and experience Chinese cultura
26 229 Chinese for
Beginners
(CI-UADY)

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Level 1 7 1. Study Chinese pinyin
2. Master the daily communication skills
and the classroom phrases in Chinese.
3. Learn the basic composition rules of
Chinese characters.
4. Learn how to write 80 basic Chinese
characters.
56 110 New Practical
Chinese 1
Level 2 4 1. Strengthen the correct pronunciation of
students.
2. Master the basic structures of Chinese
sentences and the correct use of
Chinese characters.
3. Able to conduct basic daily
conversations in Chinese using the four
basic language skills, listening,
speaking, reading and writing.
4. Increase Chinese vocabulary after
learning the rules of composing
Chinese characters.
5. Master the usage of 120 common
characters and phrases.
掌握 120 个常用词语
56 46 New Practical
Chinese 1
Level 3 2 1. Keep practicing and improving the
Chinese pinyin
2. Study more Chinese grammatical
structures.
3. Being able to develop more
complicated and improve students’
ability to understand oral and written
communication.
4. Master the usage of 200 characters.
56 18 New Practical
Chinese 2
Level 4 2 1. Keep practicing and improving the
Chinese pinyin.
2. Study more Chinese gramar.
3. Being able to understand and speak
about topics related to culture, customs
and traditions.
4. Master the usage of 350 characters
56 11 New Practical
Chinese 2

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Level 5 0 1. Keep practicing and improving the
Chinese pinyin.
2. Study systematic Chinese grammar and
practice their usage.
3. Understand well the cultural points
essential for effective communication
in daily life and specific occasions.
4. Master the usage of 600 characters
56 0 New Practical
Chinese 3
Level 6 1 1. Keep practicing and improving the
Chinese pinyin.
2. Study systematic Chinese grammar and
practice their usage.
3. Understand well the cultural points
essential for effective communication
in daily life and specific occasions.
4. Master the usage of 800 characters。
56 5 New Practical
Chinese 3
Summer
Course for
kids
3 1. Learn basic Chinese pinyin.
2. Learn basic conversations in Chinese.
3. Learn and experience Chinese culture.
60 44 Chinese Paradise
Introductory
Course for
kids
1 1. Learn basic Chinese pinyin.
2. Learn basic conversations in Chinese.
3. Learn and experience Chinese culture.
24 9 Monkey King
Chinese 1A
Kids
Level 1
2 1. Keep practicing Chinese pinyin.
2. Practice writing Chinese characters.
3. Improve oral communications in basic
Chinese
4. Learn and experience Chinese culture.
26 23 Chinese Paradise
2A
Total 37 416 495 In 2010 CI-UADY
had 245 students
and in 2011, the
number of
students has
doubled.

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2. Cultural and other activities, training of local teachers of Chinese (number of trainings,
number of participants and impact), developing of teaching materials, and applying of
graphic teaching materials.
During the year of 2011, CI-UADY has organized two China-Day Exhibitions to promote the
Chinese culture in Merida Yucatan, one seminar entitled Dialogue of Sustainable Development in
China and Mexico conducted by both Chinese and Mexican experts, and a series of conferences
to promote the Silk-Road’s contribution to the development of the world’s art and history. In
addition to the regular Chinese classes, we also opened a few new cultural classes including
Chinese Calligraphy, Taijiquan, and Chinese Cooking class collaborated with a local Chinese
restaurant.
In June 2011, for the first time CI-UADY sent its local Chinese teachers to participate in the
teaching training programs organized by HANBAN.
Date Activity Volunteer
students
No。
Activities
No。
Participants
Impact
January 30th
Fifth China
Day
45 14 800 Participants enjoy the
culture exhibition and learnt
about how Chinese people
celebrate the new year
October 2nd
Sixth China
Day
50 14 700 Participants learn about
Chinese History and
National Day. Also, they
had the opportunity to
practice calligraphy,
painting and enjoy Chinese
minorities’ dances.
April and
October
Chinese
Cooking
Class
Teachers 1 350 Students learnt the
importance of Chinese
festivals and the traditional
food for each celebration.
March and
October
Chinese
culture class:
Chinese Tea
Culture,
Beijing Opera,
caligraphy
and Taichi
Teachers 1 400 Students had the
opportunity to familiarize
with important cultural facts
of the actual life in China.

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September
29th
Dialogue of
Sustainable
Development
in China and
Mexico
Two Chinese
and two
Mexican
experts were
invited to
make
academic
presentations.
1 120 Give the students the
opportunity to know
similarities between Mexico
and China relating to the
sustainable development
and create consciousness
between them about this
world problem.
November
22nd
and 23rd
Cultural
Dialogues on
Silk-Road
3 Spanish
experts
1 200*
*Expected
number of
participants
Let the students understand
how the silk route promoted
the cultural exchange
between different countries,
especially with China.
January and
August
Courses
promotion at
Faculties
Executive
Director
2 400 Promote between local,
national and international
students the courses at the
Institute as well as the
cultural activities organized
by CI-UADY.
March Global
Promotion of
CI Official
Website
Directors and
teachers
7 151 Students interact between
them through the website
and one student won the
first prize at calligraphy
contest and other student
won the second prize at
paper cutting contest.
Total 95
students
41
activities
2821
participants
This year CI-UADY
increased the number of
participants at cultural
activities and succeeded in
opening Chinese courses
as credit courses in two
faculties of UADY.

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Local Teacher’s Training
Date Activity Place Participants Impact
June 27th
Great Wall Chinese
Training
Beijing
Language and
Culture
University
1 local
teacher
CI-UADY will install the
software in the computers at the
Languages’ Lab to let the
students know and practice
Chinese there.
October 10th
-16th
Chinese Language
Teaching Materials
Training for Overseas
Chinese Language
Teachers
Beijing Foreign
Studies
University
1 local
teacher
CI-UADY will prepare
activities to familiarize teachers
with more teaching materials by
semester and to know more
games and activities for doing
in classes.
February-June
and
August-December
Training of Local
Chinese Teacher and
Chinese volunteer
teachers at CI-UADY
CI-UADY 13 Through observation of classes
by pairs and discussion of
teaching materials and
activities, CI-UADY teachers
had been able to improve their
teaching quality and to learn
from other teachers about
special needs of Mexican
students.
Total 15 Apply new techniques and
materials at the Institute to
improve the Chinese language
classes.
3. Implementation of Headquarters key projects
4.
Date Activity Place Participants Impact
May 12th
Chinese Bridge
Competition
National
Autonomous
University of
Mexico
(UNAM)
2 First time CI-UADY
participated in the contest.
Students were very exciting
about representing the Institute.

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May and June HSK 1
HSK 2
HSK 3
CI-UADY 31
9
7
More than 90% of students
approved the HSK 1, 100% of
HSK 2 candidates approved the
exam, and 100% of HSK 3
candidates approved.
March
CI-Scholarships
CI-UADY 11 Nine students were awarded the
Confucius scholarship to study
at the University of Sun Yat-sen
for one academic year from
September 2011 to July 2012.
Two students got the four-week
scholarship studying at the same
university in July this year.
Total 60 This year the demand for
CI-Scholarships increased
significantly as well as the
HSK candidates.
Part two: New Projects and Impacts
New Project: Evaluation and update of Chinese language programs at CI-UADY
No. Project names Goal Stage(s) of Implementation
Evaluation of current
impact
1
Training of
CI-UADY
teachers
To improve the
teaching quality
so as to attract
more students
to learn Chinese
as well as to
maintain the
present interest
in learning the
language.
- According to the training plan, all
the teachers first analyze the
teaching effects of different levels
of the previous and present
semesters.
-Adjust class activities and
teaching materials to the content of
each level.
-Class observation and feedbacks
among teachers.
-Conduct teaching evaluations by
students.
The teaching evaluation had
given CI-UADY the
opportunity to know their
teaching advantages and
disadvantages. Teachers are
working very hard to improve
their teaching methods and
they have, during the training
sessions, the chance to share
and discuss their ideas.

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2
Intensive Courses
at Summer
To satisfy the
demand of
courses for
beginners
Promotion of courses during May
CI-UADY opened three classes at
the Institute, two classes at the
Faculty of Economics and one class
at a Public Technologic Institute.
More than 60 students
registered to this intensive
course and most of them
continued to the regular
course Level 1 at the
Institute.
The Chinese class at Faculty
of Economics is opened as
credited optional course.
3
Cultural courses
To motivate
students’
interest about
China and its
culture.
Promotion of different cultural
courses to students.
Besides the cultural class offered at
the regular courses (one class), the
CI-UADY offered 2 cultural
courses (10 classes): calligraphy
and taichi.
Calligraphy course captured
the interest of most students.
Taichi course, on the other
side, captured the interest of
the local community.
4 Chinese Corner
To motivate
students to keep
studying
Chinese
To give them
the opportunity
to practice oral
communication
Choose a place and time to have the
club
Promote the club between the
students
Choose topics to be discussed by
session
Select teachers to host the Chinese
club
No too many students are
participating at this moment.
However, day to day increase
the number of permanent
participants at the activity.
5
International
Seminars
Promote the
mutual
understanding
of Chinese and
Mexican
people.
 Dialogue of Sustainable
Development in China and
Mexico
 Cultural Dialogues on
Silk-Road
300 participants
Know if China and Mexico
share similarities of
differences between different
topics as: culture, sustainable
development, world
economic crisis, democracy,
poverty, etc.

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Part three: Major events and media coverage
1. Major Events
Date Activity Volunteer
students
No。
Activities
No。
Participants
Impact
January 30th
Fifht China
Day
45 14 800 Participants enjoy the culture
exhibition and learnt about
how Chinese people celebrate
the new year
October 2nd
Sixth China
Day
50 14 700 Participants learn about
Chinese History and National
Day. Also, they had the
opportunity to practice
calligraphy, painting and
enjoy Chinese minorities’
dances.
September
29th
Dialogue
Mexico-China
for
Sustainable
Development
4 experts 1 120 Give the students the
opportunity to know
similarities between Mexico
and China relating to the
sustainable development and
create consciousness between
them about this world
problem.
November
22nd and
23rd
Cultural
Dialogues at
the Silk Route
3 experts 1 200* Let the students understand
how the silk route promoted
the cultural exchange between
different countries, especially
with China.
April, June
and October
Chinese Food
Preparation
Class
teachers 12 229 Students learnt what are the
traditional food for special
celebrations in China and
learnt how to prepare Chinese
dumplings and tangyuan.

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September Promotion of
Courses at
Mass Media
Directors Radio
interview
2 Local radio and University
radio gave IC-UADY,
through interviews, some
minutes to promote the
Chinese courses as well as the
cultural activity China Day.
*Expected number of participants
2. Relevant comments and mainstream media coverage
1. “China Day” cultural activities
 Diario de Yucatán（See attachment 1.）
 Por Esto（See Attachment 2.）
 Website coverage of Diario de Yucatán（See attachment 3.）
http://www.yucatan.com.mx/20111003/nota-7/181420-la-cultura-de-china--llega-a-los-merid
anos.htm
 Website of Autonomous University of Yucatan（See attachment 4）
http://www.uady.mx/sitios/prensa/boletin.html
 Website of Confucius Online（See attachment 5）
http://www.chinese.cn/college/article/2011-10/14/content_354949.htm
 Website of Sun Yat-sen University
http://ci.sysu.edu.cn/Item/448.aspx
2. International seminars
 Por Esto（See attachment 6）
 Website of Autonomous University of Yucatan
http://www.uady.mx/sitios/prensa/boletines/sep-11/30-sep-11.html

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3. HSK
 News coverage of Xinhua Net
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2011-06/26/c_121586074.htm
 Website of Hanban
 Website of Sun Yat-sen University
 Website of Autonomous University of Yucatan
4. Course closing ceremony
 News coverage of Xinhua Net
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2011-06/01/c_121483914.htm
 Local news website in Yucatan
http://www.sipse.com/noticias/105789-egresa-primera-generacion-instituto-confuc
io-uady.html
5. Chinese cuisine class
 News coverage of Diario de Yucatán (See attachment 8)
6. Chinese course promotion
 Website coverage of Diario de Yucatán（See attachment 9）
 Website of Autonomous University of Yucatan
http://sp.riuady.uady.mx/sitios/ic/default.aspx
Part four: Difficulties and Feature Plans
 Difficulty: Late approval of CI-UADY 2011Budget. The software for 2012 budget
application does not work properly.

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Future Plans:
 Plans: Improve the teaching quality of Chinese language culture and Chinese cultural
courses as well as to increase the number of cultural activities
 Increase the number of credit courses at the Faculties of the Autonomous University of
Yucatan
 Offer the exam YCT to primary and secondary students
 Offer the HSK oral examination at the CI-UADY and promote the Institute as an
Examination Center of Chinese language proficiency in the southeast area of Mexico
 Increase the number of participants in the Chinese Corner

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Attachment 1
News coverage of ¨China Day¨ cultural activities on the local newspaper Diario de Yucatán:

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Attachment 2
News coverage on the local newspaper Por Esto:

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Attachment 3
News coverage on the webite of Diario de Yucatán:
http://www.yucatan.com.mx/20111005/nota-7/181370-se-realizo-la-vi-expo-conoce-china-de-la-uady.htm

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Attachment 4
News coverage on the website of Autonomous University of Yucatan

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Attachment 5
News coverage of the website of Confucius Online:

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Attachment 6
News coverage on the local newspaper Por Esto:

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Attachment 7
New coverage of Xinhua Net:

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Attachment 8
News coverage of Chinese cuisine class on the local newspaper:

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Attachment 9
Chinese course promotion

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