Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 4 20 2017 1 6 Application Research of CALT in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language - Taking Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro as an Example 1342 1346 EN Fuliang Guo Jianan Tu Jianan Tu, College of Literature, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China EDUCATION20164205 10.12691/education-4-20-5 2016 8 12 2016 11 26 2017 1 4 The development of information technology and the application of computer have had a great impact on language teaching. Computer Assisted language teaching (CALT) is a new trend in the development of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Based on the theory of CALT, this paper makes a detailed investigation and analysis of the present situation of teaching Chinese as a foreign language in the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It compares the traditional language teaching with CALT, and concludes that CALT has had a positive impact on the learning effect and learning interest of students.