The academic journal International Chinese Language Education (Chinese-English) is supervised by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, sponsored by Beijing Foreign Studies University, and jointly organized by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University and the Office of Confucius Institutes in Beijing Foreign Studies University.  Its National Unified Publication Number is CN10-1385/H, and International Standard Serial Number is ISSN2096-3106. It's published quarterly in sextodecimo. This is the first issue of 2017.

This journal aims to build a communication platform for international Chinese language education and to enhance Chinese education and communication around the world by sticking to the right path and direction of a public periodical, covering the policy and circumstances of Chinese language education at home and abroad, presenting the outstanding achievements and experience in international Chinese language education and exploring as well as summarizing the scientific and efficient ways  to cultivate teachers' potentials and the policies to boost the language education.

Contents：

1 Words from the Editor-in-Chief / Zhao Yang

Experts Forum: Teaching Materials Compilation and Discipline Development

3 The Coordinator: Li Xiaoqi

5 Relationship between Chinese Language Teaching Materials Compilation and Discipline Development / Li Xiaoqi

9 Text Selection and Compilation: Concept as the Priority with the Emphasis on Practicability—Take the Three Texts in Developing Chinese: Advanced Comprehensive CourseⅡ as an Example / Li Quan

15 Development Trends of Teaching Materials Compilation and Related Theoretical Problems / Wu Zhongwei, Geng Zhi and Xu Tingting

20 Teaching Practicability of Chinese Language Teaching Materials Compilation / Jiang Liping

Disciplinary Development

25 Research Design and Thesis Writing of Graduation Thesis for Masters of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages / Zhou Xiaobing

33 On the Employment Situation of Graduate Students who Major in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages—Take Beijing Foreign Studies University as an Example / Li Meiling

Chinese Language Tests and Evaluation

41 Ten Years for AP Chinese: Development Trends Based on Distribution of Exam Takers and Courses in the Globe / Zeng Miaofen and Yu Yuyang

Training and Development of Teachers

53 Language Learning Beliefs of International Chinese Language Teachers—Take the Chinese Department at National Institute of Education of Nanyang Technological University as an Example / Zhong Guorong

Chinese Language Learners

62 Research on Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Japanese Students in Beijing Universities / Qi Hua and Kimura Mie

73 The Investigation that Focuses on Chinese Learning Condition of Japanese College Students / Liu Jihong

Overseas Chinese Language Teaching

81 A Case Study of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in the US—Take Seton Hall University as an Example / Chen Dongdong

Academic Frontier and Trends

88 Questions and Answers on Task-Based Language Teaching / Michael H. Long, Lu Shiyi and Yi Wei

Reviews

100 Review on Researches into Chinese Language Textbooks in Recent 20 Years / Shao Mingming