A Brief Discussion On The Selection Of Comprehensive Course Materials In One-to-One Chinese Teaching

With the development of China, there are more people interested in learning Chinese today. Some countries even list Chinese as a second foreign language in their compulsory or elective subjects at primary and secondary schools. Textbooks are the most important part during language teaching, because they connect teaching with learning. The success of Chinese language teaching depends on the quality of Chinese textbooks. For decades, a variety of Chinese teaching materials and teaching resources have been developed. All of this demonstrates the efforts and achievements made by the Chinese teachers and workers around the world.Today there are all kinds of Chinese teaching materials and resources which can meet the needs of different Chinese learners. For most one-on-one Chinese teachers, they are not short of Chinese textbooks, yet how to choose a right one is still an annoying and tiresome thing. At present, the main body of Chinese as a second language teaching can be divided into four parts:Domestic College Chinese teaching departments, Foreign college Chinese teaching departments, International schools and Chinese training schools or individual Chinese tutors. The first three belong to Classroom Teaching Model. Their selection of teaching materials is relatively fixed, which is not the scope of this paper. This paper aims at the fourth, namely, Chinese training schools and individual Chinese tutor.The author intends to discuss and research a selection of comprehensive teaching materials in one-to-one Chinese teaching by a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences between New Practical Chinese Reader and Chinese Made Easier. The author will do the comparison and analysis by sharing ideas and suggestions from teachers who use these two textbooks as their teaching materials. The research methods used are mainly individual teacher's interviews, analysis of case studies and questionnaires for students.The main body of this paper is divided into five parts:Introduction, which includes the reason, aim and meaning of the paper and present study on this topic; Introductions of the two textbooks including comments and compiling principles; Comparative analysis of the two textbooks from seven aspects:overall structure and content arrangement, pronunciation teaching modes and arrangement, the content and form of text or dialogue, the arrangement and English notes of word vocabulary, the content and form of exercise, the arrangement of grammar content and the arrangement of Chinese characters; Interviews with teachers and case study of Students' learning information, and Conclusion and suggestions on the selection of the teaching materials in one-on-one Chinese teaching. In the end, the author will put forward personal expectations for future researches.