Remote Chinese Teaching and Learning at Japanese Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

Universities in Japan have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This chapter summarizes Emergent Remote Teaching (ERT) during 2020, based on the results of several large-scale questionnaire surveys of teachers and the students at higher education institutions offering Chinese language education. The findings demonstrated that satisfaction and the desire to continue online education was generally high among students, while teachers were overall less satisfied. This chapter also investigated technology-mediated Chinese language teaching in Japanese universities prior to COVID-19, which paved the way for the ERT. These comprehensive summaries provide insights into key concepts for the sustainable development of Chinese teaching and learning in Japan. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.