Usage expressions are very important in modern Chinese, but it is also a part that is very easy to be ignored. The concept of usage expressions is different from idioms, it is a none borrowed from the book: A Course in Chinese Colloquial Usage Expressions. Usage expressions includes adages, popular sayings and fixed expressions that is always naturally appears in our daily conversation.Usage expressions are widely used in Chinese people’s daily conversation, and most of them cannot be replaced by other expressions when we use them. In the course of teaching Chinese as a second language, learning usage expressions is a great difficulty for many students, teachers are also used to put less attention on the process of teaching such knowledge. So, we can find the importance of teaching usage expressions through looking for the content, characteristics and sources of usage expressions, and use the analysis of students’ errors to summarize some teaching methods of pronunciation, meaning, grammar and Chinese characters. We hope to provide some useful suggestions through a teaching case at the same time.The research of usage expressions has profound significances. Chinese like and often use the usage expressions, it means that usage expressions has a very important position in Chinese daily conversation. The focus of teaching usage expression is different from other classes, it focuses on correct errors in actual dialogues, not to practice Chinese through Pinyin and grammar through books. The text of teaching usage expressions are also from actual dialogues. That’s why it require teachers must prepare a lot on choosing texts and explaining the rules of using them.Currently, the class of teaching usage expressions has not been singled out from other classes, most teachers and students are still learning Chinese targets on express correctly and using correct grammar. But students must learn much tunnel expressions if they want to learn Chinese well. |