Curriculum Introduction

Ⅰ. Phonetics Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students

“Phonetics Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students” is a curriculum on the teaching approaches for language elements. The anticipated teaching class is 12 hours.

The teaching object is the person with certain basic knowledge on Chinese phonetics theory who expected to engage in Chinese teaching to foreign students.

Teaching contents:

1. Phonetic elements: phonetic basic knowledge, phoneme concept, International Phonetic Alphabet, sound system of standard modern Chinese, Chinese Phonetic Alphabet and orthography of words in Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, etc.
2. Ability of phonetics teaching: basic principle of phonetics teaching, methods and techniques of phonetics teaching, methods of teaching the student some difficult pronunciations, the method of tone teaching.
3. Teaching examples analysis: analyze abundant teaching examples with the teaching practices of the teachers.
4. Teaching strategy for students with different native languages: conduct pointed phonetics teaching according to the features of different native languages for students from Japan, Korea, European and America countries, Southeast Asian countries and correct the pronunciations of Chinese language learners.

After finishing this curriculum, the learners will have an overview on the phonetics of this language, comprehensively understand the phonetic system of standard modern Chinese and grasp some methods and techniques of phonetics teaching so as to teach the different objects in transferring the language elements to language skills and further to language communication skills.

Ⅱ. Words Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students

“Words Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students” is a curriculum on the teaching approaches for language elements. The anticipated teaching class is 12 hours.

The teaching object is the person with certain Chinese vocabularies and basic grammar knowledge who expected to engage in Chinese teaching to foreign students.

Teaching contents:

1. Language elements: morphology of standard modern Chinese (vocabulary system and internal structure of words), word class system, phrase.
2. Ability of words teaching:basic principle of words teaching, methods and techniques of words teaching; the exhibition, explanation and extension of words; the differentiation of synonym and near-synonymy.
3. Teaching examples analysis: analyze abundant teaching examples with the teaching practices of the teachers.

After finishing this curriculum, the learners will further understand the vocabulary system of standard modern Chinese, grasp some methods and techniques of words teaching so as to teach the different objects in extending their vocabulary and transferring language elements to language skills and further to language communication skills.

Ⅲ. Chinese Character Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students

“Chinese Character Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students” is a curriculum on the teaching approaches for language (character) elements. The anticipated teaching class is 4 hours.

The teaching object is the person with certain basic knowledge of Chinese Character theory who expected to engage in Chinese teaching to foreign students.

Teaching contents:

1. Language elements: basic knowledge of Chinese character, structure of modern Chinese character, modern Chinese character system, standardization of modern Chinese character, etc.
2. Ability of Chinese character teaching: basic principle of Chinese character teaching, methods and techniques of Chinese character teaching.
3. Teaching examples analysis: analyze abundant teaching examples with the teaching practices of the teachers.
4. Teaching strategy for students with different native languages: Chinese character teaching aiming at “Chinese-character cultural sphere” and “Non-Chinese character cultural sphere”.

After finishing this curriculum, the learners will have profound understanding on modern Chinese Character; grasp some methods and skills of Chinese character teaching; have the ability of teaching different objects so as to enable the students to grasp the communication skills of Chinese more efficiently through the combination of language system and character system.

Ⅳ. Audiolingual Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students

“Audiolingual Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students” is a practical curriculum on the teaching approaches for language skills. The anticipated teaching class is 6 hours.

The teaching object is the person with certain basic knowledge of modern Chinese theory who expected to engage in Chinese teaching to foreign students.

Teaching contents:

1. Teaching principle: listening class and oral class are two practical classes with unique teaching philosophy and principle according to the acquisition theory of the second language.
2. Contents of listening and oral training: micro-skills training of listening, contents of oral training, different emphasis points of training in the elementary, intermediate and advance stage.
3. Methods and techniques of listening and oral training: conduct listening and oral training for different students; gradually train the students in diffident level from listening to syllables, words, sentences and dialogues to expression and communication in paragraphs.
4. 4. Teaching examples analysis: the method of preparing lessons and writing teaching plan; analyze abundant teaching examples with the teaching practices of the teachers.

After finishing this curriculum, the learners will grasp the method and procedure of listening and oral teaching of Chinese as the second language and utilize these skills in their classroom teaching practices to improve teaching effect.

Ⅴ. Reading Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students

“Reading Teaching Approaches in Chinese Teaching to Foreign Students” is a practical curriculum on the teaching approaches for language skills. The anticipated teaching class is 6 hours.

The teaching object is the person with certain basic knowledge of modern Chinese theory who expected to engage in Chinese teaching to foreign students.

Teaching contents:
1. Teaching principle: reading class is a language practice class with its unique teaching philosophy and principle according to psychology theory and the acquisition theory of the second language.
2. Training contents of reading class: Chinese character, phonetics, vocabulary, grammar and culture contents; other skills training, different emphasis points of training in the elementary, intermediate and advance stage.
3. Training methods and techniques of reading class: three models of reading (from bottom to top, from top to bottom, interaction model); emphasis of reading training, teaching links of reading class.
4. Teaching examples analysis: the method of preparing lessons and writing teaching plan; analyze abundant teaching examples with the teaching practices of the teachers.