A Camparative Analysis Of The Old And New HSK Syllabus

With the development of HSK,some drawbacks of the old HSK gradually exposed,in order to make the HSK better serve the cause of the international Chinese teaching and learning,Confucious Institute Headquarter officially launched the new HSK in November,2009.The limitation of the old HSK syllabus is mainly embodied in too much emphasis on the Chinese grammar specification of students,even ignores the students’ practical Chinese communicative abilities to a certain extent,that is not consistent with a current educational objective for students to learn Chinese;the old HSK syllabus follows the principle of “separation of examination and teaching ”,which causes a lot of obstacles to the actual Chinese teaching,so that teachers can not be combined with teaching and testing better.While the new HSK syllabus follows the principle of aiming at cultivating the students’ communicative abilities in Chinese,conforms to the time requirement better;the new HSK syllabus is according to the principle of “to test and promote teach,to test and promote learn,to combine testing and teaching”,so that teachers can better use the ideas of teaching and testing organically,which can not only improve the classroom efficiency of teaching,but also can make students more active with the test.This paper is on the basis of comparing the contents of the old and new HSK syllabus,and discusses some new innovation of the new HSK syllabus,and takes the new HSK 4 as an example,makes a summary and analysis for the contents of listening,reading,writing,to better serve the foreign language classroom teaching and examination strategies to provide the help.This paper consists of five parts:The first chapter is the introduction,which describes the background of the topic,the significance of the topic and the summary of research,which provides the theoretical basis for the following contents.The second chapter,the author analyzes and compares the theoretical basis and the grade standard of the old and new HSK,analyzes the principle of the new HSK test,reveals the scientificity and objectivity of the new HSK syllabus.In the third chapter,taking the new HSK 4 as an example,the paper reveals the changes of the new HSK4 compared with the old HSK basis,and makes a concrete analysis of the content of the new HSK 4.The fourth chapter is the enlightenment of the new HSK 4 syllabus to the Chinese classroom teaching,taking the new HSK 4 as an example,analyzing the enlightenment to the teaching of listening,reading and writing.The fifth chapter is the enlightenment of the new HSK syllabus to the test strategies,taking the new HSK 4 as an example,the author puts forward the test strategies aiming at listening,reading and writing.