Abstract
International children in China face various disadvantages on their Chinese learning when choosing to enroll into a non-international elementary school. Based on the research of Friedrich Heckmann and a survey on the Chinese-learning situations of international children, this paper studies the factors influencing their Chinese learning respectively from a micro-family level, meso-school level and macro-community level and put forward feasible suggestions for international children in order to enhance their Chinese learning result, and in a broader sense, improve the international impact of Chinese language, attract more foreign elites and strength our national cultural soft power.
Keywords  international children   learning Chinese language   influencing factors

在华外籍儿童选择在非国际小学入读，其汉语学习面临多种不利因素的影响。本文基于Heckmann F.的理论和对外籍儿童的问卷调查，分别在微观家庭层次、中观学校层次、宏观社会层次调查外籍儿童汉语学习的影响因素，为其汉语学习提供可行的建议，并提高汉语的国际影响力，吸引更多的外籍人才，加强我国的文化软实力。
关键词  外籍儿童   汉语学习   影响因素

With the expansion of China’s opening-up, an increasing number of foreign elites are pouring into China, including language teachers, senior cooperation managers and advanced researchers, and a large number of them are intended to stay for a relative long time. (According to the National Statistics Bureau in the 2010 national census, 250,434 international people live in China for at least five years.) The most pressing issue these elites have to deal with is their children’s education. On the one hand, they are not willing to send children to international schools that are expensive and lack of discipline. On the other hand, learning Chinese can be not only useful but also necessary to integrate into the Chinese society. However, at present there is no special Chinese education applied to international children, so their learning of the Chinese language is disadvantaged in many ways. This paper tries to identify the major factors influencing the mastery of Chinese by international children and makes feasible remedies to improve their Chinese studying, through a questionnaire aimed at foreign children.