The Significant Role Of Chinese Language In The Training Of Tourist Guides

Tourist guiding is a newly appearing discipline, covering wide range of subjects. Until now almost no educational institution in China has been able to offer a tourist-guiding program with a terrific curriculum. With the view of developing a rational curriculum of the discipline, I will in this paper express my opinion of the position of Chinese language in tourist-guiding education. This paper will demonstrate the close relation between Chinese language and tourist-guiding job. Tourist-guiding service is mainly of oral communication and therefore oral communication is the vital part of tourist-guiding job. Oral communication is required to be taught in any language course so that Chinese-language course plays an indispensable role in the training of tourist guides. And Chinese language must be positioned as one of the major subjects of tourist-guiding discipline. On the other side of the coin, however, Chinese language should only be one of the major fundamental subjects in its curriculum, due to the fact that language training belongs to basic education and is one of the fundamental courses of any specialty training. The discussed Chinese language is hereby referred to as tourist-guiding language. We have to reshape the educational system of tourist-guiding language in order to improve its practicality, and make correspondent adjustments to its contents.