Constructing Of Topic And Topic-specific Word List For Oral Chinese Teaching Based On Corpus

With the development of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, teaching Chinese based on communication has become the mainstream. To develop foreign students' communicative competence has become the ultimate goal. The development trend of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language is "oral style", "communicativeness", "topic aspect" and "interesting". Faced with this trend, Word List for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language also adapts to this change and gradually turns to the "diversification", such as constructing the word list for domains and the country-specific word list. However, Research on these fields is still relatively lack. Wordlist-construction also focused on the construction of comprehensive word list. This article is a try based on this trend. Try to construct a word list based topic for Oral Chinese Teaching for Foreigners.Word List is mainly based on the selected topic. Vocabularies are classified by the subjected topic. There are three steps in constructing the word list. First, determine the principle of selecting topics, choose topics and establish topic base. The second step, try to accomplish the task of classification by artificial system in combination with word clustering online retrieving. The third step. Words is graded according to the Generality of Vocabulary.In the process of construction of word list, the writer clearly define "topic", "the topic seed words", "the topic-specific word list", "the topic universal words", "the topic special words" and so on; definite the principles of constructing the topic word list; and preliminarily construct a word list in this text. The word list income of the first-level topic 40 the secondary topic 50, and income of vocabulary 2401, include:the topic universal words1187, the topic special words 1204.The research methods are "documentary method", "statistical approach", "comparative method" and "corpus".