On The Culture Factors To Meet The Hierarchy Needs Of Foreign Students

In recent years, the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language has developed with irresistible force in China, among which the discussion of culture teaching has been paid extraordinary importance by the academy of teaching Chinese as a foreign language since the1980s. Even though a great number of scholars affirmed the necessity of culture teaching during the procedure of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, two divergences exist. First of all, the difference exists in the position and usage of culture teaching. Some scholars insist that culture teaching should be closely attached to and serve language teaching, while others believe that since it can exist independently without directly related to language teaching so that the study on it separately is of importance. It tends to focus on the selection and classification of the content belongs to the culture teaching exist independently during special culture teaching course in this essay. Furthermore, as to the taxonomy of the content, different scholars come up with various opinions with respective reasons but never come into a unified conclusion which brings great difficulty to culture teaching. This essay aims at putting forward the taxonomy of the culture content relying on the discussion from the perspective of foreign students’ cultural requirements of Chinese culture. Absorbing the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory and adopting the outcome of the research on foreign students’ cultural requirements, the cultural factors are divided into four parts that the factors to meet the request of adaption, communication, pursuing for beauty, and meditation in this essay.