The Application Study Of "cognitive-functional Approach"in Vocabulary Teaching In The Primary Stage Of TCFL

Vocabulary Teaching has not been viewed as an important part in the primary stage ofTCFL．and been lagged behind phonetics and grammar Teaching． However,this situationtends to be an obstacle for the vocabulary teaching in the advanced stage．This paperintroduces a new foreign language teaching approach——Cognitive-functionalApproach,to give a theoretical guidance to Vocabulary Teaching in the primary stage．AndThis paper also takes examples of the First Class Words in the Outline of ChineseVocabulary and Chinese Characters Level to make teaching designs． This paper includesthe following parts:The first part of the paper mainly introduces the content related to vocabularyteaching in the primary stage．Firstly, it introduces studies of vocabulary teaching in theprimary stage in recent years．Secondly, it introduces the importance and the features ofvocabulary teaching in the primary stage．Vocabulary teaching in the primary stage is animportant part of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language,and it is directly related tostudents’ vocabulary acquisition in the advanced stage．Moreover,Vocabulary teaching inthe primary stage has different features from that in the advanced stage,such as Figurativeand Intuitive,and so on． And these features have problems which can not be ignored．The second part mainly introduces the theoretical basis and the basic principles ofCognitive-functional Approach．Cognitive-functional Approach is based on transformationalgenerative linguistics and Functional linguistics,and draws lessons from the CognitiveApproach and the Functional Approach．The principles are as follows：Students are thecentre of teaching,suggest students studying actively;Teachers should offer valid materialsfor students,lead them to discover language principles actively;Make the input process cognitive;Carry out the comparative and inductive methods Actively．The third part mainly explains how to use Cognitive-functional Approach invocabulary explaining and synonyms identifying theoretically．In the aspect of vocabularyexplaining,firstly teachers should lead students to recognize the word formationactively,and then should offer suitable context．In the aspect of synonyms identifying,firstly teachers should lead students to recognize the differences of synonyms actively,andthen should use the function approach to identify．The last part of the paper mainly chooses the representative Nouns, verbs, adjectives,adverbs, auxiliary words, and quantifiers from the First Class Words in the Outline ofChinese Vocabulary and Chinese Characters Level,to make teaching designs in theguidance of Cognitive-functional Approach．This paper introduces Cognitive-functional Approach into vocabulary teaching in theprimary stage,offering a new approach for vocabulary teaching．This is beneficial to thedevelopment of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language．...