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Investigation Of Modern Chinese Idioms, And Application To Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language

Posted on:2009-12-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245495802Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Idioms is a part of Chinese phrases and words, like proverbs, set phrases and Chinese Two-part Allegorical Sayings. So far, all the studies on idioms mainly focused on language noumenon and for a long while there is controversy on its character, property, scope and syntactic structure. So that brings the studies of the past to such a confinement that all the studies haven't paid enough attention to the phonetics, syntax and embodied cultural elements of idioms.Idioms, as the set phrase, play a very important role in teaching Chinese as second language. Foreign students tend to make partial mistakes while learning idioms. To analyze these mistakes then try to find the connections within could be helpful or instructional in teaching. We still found that in teaching Chinese as second language, many foreign students, even those in advanced classes have been using idioms so little and tries to avoid using them.In view of above-mentioned conditions, this article selects several kinds of special corpus for analyzing and tries to simply illustrate and analyze its characters so as to bring forward corresponding countermeasures especially in teaching Chinese as second language from the perspective of teaching.This article has four chapters:Chapterâ… : Introduction on the reasons for the choice, the analysis of problems and the concept, research methodology and theoretical basisChapterâ…¡: Review of the existing research resultsDiscourse on the research results of predecessors on the source of Idioms, nature and scope of the idioms, its grammatical structures and characteristics and rhetoric devices of the language used in some form of rhetoric research results. For the current research condition of the modern Chinese idioms, it focuses on the phonetics and understanding to analyze the cognitive psychological understanding, cultural factors, the development and the evolution of Idioms.Chapterâ…¢: On teaching idioms in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and Second Language Acquisition. This section describes the language habits of students while making partial mistakes. On the basis of its research and in view of the understanding of the characteristics of the students on the different stages of learning Chinese idioms presented the coping strategies in idioms in teaching Chinese as a foreign language idioms. In second language acquisition and idiom-teaching discussed the second language learning and difficulty analysis of using Idioms, strategy adoptions Second Language Acquisition of Idioms and inspired suggestions on teaching Chinese as a second language.Chapterâ…£: Analysis of idioms in static and dynamic CorpusThrough the analysis on the idioms in the HSK Vocabulary Outline brought forward some personal comments to the HSK. On the basis of statistical analysis on certain special dynamic corpus, the descriptive analysis of some idiom or so-called idiom phenomenon the prospective idioms description of the phenomenon is carried out.
Keywords/Search Tags:Modern Chinese, Idioms, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Corpus
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