A Relevance Study Between Chinese Language Attitude And Chinese Language Proficiency Of African Students In Changsha

With the development of Chinese economy and improvement of international status,there is an increasing needs of learning Chinese.Therefore,China has become the heated place for foreign students to learn Chinese.With distinct cultural background,mother tongue and learning objectives,these foreign students have constituted a special group who learn Chinese as the second language.Based on the Language Attitude Theory and Interlanguage Theory proposed by Lambert,this thesis mainly chose African students from several universities in Changsha as main research objects and adopted documentary method,questionnaire method,statistical analysis method and interview method.The development of the scale mainly refered to Attitude Motivation Test Battery designed by Gardner and Common European Framework of Reference for Languages:Learning,Teaching and Evaluation.Based on this,Chinese language attitude and language proficiency scale formed.The research data was obtained by questionnaire survey.By Statistical Package for Social Science(SPSS 23.0),firstly,the present situation of Chinese language attitude and language proficiency of African students in Changsha were analyzed.Secondly,and the influence of personal background variables on Chinese language attitude and language competence was studied.Thirdly,the correlation between Chinese language attitude and language competence was verified.Lastly,whether language attitude exerts an effect on language proficiency was also analyzed.Additionally,qualitative data of interview was analyzed so as to make a supplementation for the results of quantitative analysis and enable the conclusion to be more convincible and effective.The research results show that:(1)As for African students in Changsha,their CLA is in a good level at the present,but listening ability and speaking ability is slightly worse than reading and writing ability in CLP.(2)The effective background factors that exert an effect on Chinese language attitude and Chinese language proficiency include gender,education background,time length of coming to China and Chinese learning time before China.There is positive correlation between CLA and CLP.(3)The cognitive,affective and Active components of Chinese language attitude all have significant positive predictive effects on Chinese language proficiency.That is to say,the higher score of these three components one participant get,the better one’s Chinese listening,speaking,reading and writing ability will be.Based on the above results,we can make deeper understanding of African students’ Chinese language attitude and Chinese language proficiency,which can not only promote Chinese education for foreign students but also benefit for formulating Chinese language policy.