International joint development of Tutorial Chinese system

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We have developed the teaching program focusing on Chinese language communication skills with Beijing University and National Taiwan Normal University. In 2002,we started the the lesson distribution on Internet and in 2003 we developed the class management platform (http://www.tcwaseda.net/tc/), the instructor training methods, test editing system. In 2004,we have completed the language training programs such as composition drills and the Call drills on the web.In 2004,136 courses of Beijing University and 84 courses of National Taiwan Normal University were broadcasted online at Waseda University as regular credited courses. In 2005,216 courses of Beijing and 144 courses of Taiwan have been delivered to 250 students. These students scored 10% higher on average in 2003 in the assessment test and 20% higher in the following year of 2004.We held the conference named The Symposium on the Chinese Cross-Cultural Distance Learning in December 2003,inviting over 40 scholars from Institute of Computational Linguistics (ICL), Peking University, National Taiwan Normal University, and Korea University. Since 2004,we have held Chinese Corpus Conference five times at Waseda University.