As the popularity of the Chinese language grows, there is urgent need to improve the quality of Chinese teaching as a foreign language in the UK higher education sector, participants at an international conference agreed Wednesday.

The 16th International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education, organized by the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS), attracted over 100 Chinese teaching and research professionals from the UK, Japan, US, Germany and Malaysia.

The three-day event, co-hosted by the School of Modern Languages, University of Warwick and the Confucius Institute at Coventry University, will discuss a range of topics on the uniqueness and the commonalities of teaching Chinese as a foreign language.