The Study Of Modern Chinese Homophones In Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language

Due to the complex relations between the pronunciation and meanings of one character, the modern Chinese homophones are very difficult to learn for foreign learners who Chinese as the second language. About the modern Chinese homophones, there are many ontological researches at present, but the researches regarding teaching Chinese as a foreign language are very few. So this thesis first investigates the modern Chinese homophones'situations in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, then makes a word list through investigation, analysis and comparison, and put forward some suggestions of teaching. This paper is divided into six chapters.The first chapter is the introduction, in which the existing research results of the modern Chinese homophones are introduced briefly, as well as pointing out the object and direction of this study and making the research methods and principles clearly. This paper studied the modern Chinese homophones in The outline of Graded Vocabulary for HSK (The outline for short) and some teaching Chinese as a foreign language textbooks by quantitative statistics and qualitative analysis.The second chapter introduces the modern Chinese homophones'situations in The outline and textbooks. Firstly, the author makes a statistics about the amount of words, the pronunciation and the grade of words in The outline.Then investigates the text books and analyzes them from the introduction about this knowledge, the quantity of received pronunciation and so on.The third chapter contrasts the similarities and differences between the textbooks and The outline.The same part is the key point to learn. The differences include two parts:the words The outline included but not manifested in the textbooks and the words appeared in the textbooks but not included of The outline. Then this paper analyzes these differences and finds out the reasons. Based on the statistical analysis of the second and third chapter, the fourth chapter analyzes the types of the modern Chinese homophones which appeared in The outline and the textbooks. These words can be divided into two parts:polyphonic polysemous words which included eight types and polyphonic synonym. Then summarizes the list of common modern Chinese homophones in the teaching Chinese as a foreign language according to practicality and common, and according to using frequency divides it into three parts for ease of use.The fifth chapter carries on the discussion of the modern Chinese homophones teaching from primary and senior stages in view of the questions exited in the foreign learners. According to the Theory of the Mental Lexicon, the learners should grasp pronunciations and accumulate vocabulary in the primary stage to lay a good foundation for further study. To the senior stage, teachers should be good at helping students to establish the semantic system through morpheme extraction, word meaning relation, distinguish part of speech, stringing words into sentences and so on. Using these methods followed along a lot of practice could make students grasp the modern Chinese homophones better.And the last chapter is a conclusion to summarize the full text.