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Around 1000 years ago, Zhou Dunyi, a Chinese scholar, poet and one of the founding fathers of Neo-Confucianism philosophy, came up the the Taijitu or Tai Chi diagram to present the Taoist Yin Yang Theory from I Ching, or the Book of Change.
Tai Chi represents a continuous, dynamic and active transformation relationship between the clear and the dark parts. In other words, it is spinning! The younger the learner is, it spins faster, which means that misunderstandings, confusions, and unpleasant feelings appear fast, while mutual understanding and acceptance can be achieved faster too through proper foreign language education. Meanwhile, the learner’s cultural competence grows faster in this process.
As a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, a Mandarin Chinese instructor for over 10 years and founder of Immersive Beijing, Sherry has been viewing foreign language education through the lens of the Tai Chi diagram and now presenting the relationship between Foreign Language Education and the development of Cultural Competence using a fun Tai Chi model.