美国的中文教学在过去十年里经历了一个学生人数从少到多、教学单位由上(大学)至下(中小学)的普及发展过程。中文教学曾相对空白的田纳西州在过去的五年里也有一些公立和私立的中小学陆续开设了中文课程。在此过程中,公立中小学面临的一个现实难题就是中文教师的执照问题。和美国其他州一样,田纳西州也要求在公立中小学任教的教师都必须持有本州教育主管部门颁发的教师执照。而要取 In the past ten years, the teaching of Chinese in the United States has undergone a process of popularizing and developing the teaching units from upper (university) to lower (primary and secondary schools). Tennessee, where Chinese teaching has been relatively vacant, has also started some Chinese courses in public schools and private schools in the past five years. In this process, one of the practical problems that public primary and secondary schools are facing is the license issue of Chinese teachers. Like other states in the United States, Tennessee also requires that teachers who teach in public primary and secondary schools must hold a teacher’s license issued by a state education authority. And to take