The Chinese-Russian Language Use Difference And The Research On Cross-cultural Teaching Of Chinese Language

There is a huge difference between Chinese and Russian culture. Therefore, when Russian students learning Chinese they are easily influenced by their native language and cultural background. That's why they make mistakes in daily conversations inappropriately addressing people and making other mistakes that in the ears of Chinese people looks as impolite behaviors. We believe that simply teach Chinese culture to Russian students is not enough. First, Chinese language teacher should understand the native language and cultural background of the students in order to arrange teaching content and choose appropriate and efficient methods. Second, we support the concept of cross-cultural teaching, such as the contrast type and fusion-style of cross-cultural teaching.In the introduction we discuss the background and significance of selected topics; we do a literature review and description of the research.The first chapter is the theoretical basis. In this part we talk about the phenomena of influence of native students'culture on acquisition of Chinese language and about the concept of cross-cultural teaching. Also we make introduction to the theory of native language and culture transformation, types and causes of this phenomena and the definition of cross-cultural teaching, its importance and cross-cultural teaching strategies.In the second part we make research on cultural transformation in acquiring Chinese language by Russian students. In this section we study specific examples of cultural influence of Russian language and cultural background on acquisition of Chinese language by Russian students. We analyze various aspects of daily life communication, such as greeting, salutation, thanksgiving, apologies and other polite forms of daily communication. Main research method that used in this part is comparative analysis and error analysis. This section helps understand and structurize the difficulties and problems of Russian students in Chinese language learning. Next in the last part of the article we try to form some teaching recommendations.The third part is based on cross-cultural teaching theory. First, we analyze the actual situation in teaching of Chinese language and culture by Russian students in Russia and in China. Based on this analysis and results of the students learning difficulties we propose few recommendations of cross-cultural teaching. We give specific recommendations regarding the teaching materials, Chinese language teachers, classroom activities and extra-curricular activities.