Research On Chinese Animal Words In Chinese Teaching As A Second Language

Vocabulary teaching is a key part of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, but also the weak part of it. Animal words, as a special group of Chinese vocabulary, often cause some difficulties to the learners that learning Chinese as the language, because of its rich and colorful cultural connotation and flexible forms. At present, in the domestic academic circles, the research on Chinese animal words of teaching Chinese as a foreign language is still relatively weak. Besides, in the teaching practice, animal words have not been paid enough attention. In view of the situation, this thesis takes Chinese animal words as the research object, classifies different animal words to four classes according to different sources of cultural meaning of them. Then to explore and sum up the suitable teaching methods and techniques for Chinese animal words teaching from three aspects:phonetic teaching, semantic teaching and pragmatic teaching.This thesis is divided into four parts:the first part is the introduction, which discusses the meaning of the topic, research methods, the concept of animal words and previous research results. The second part is the theme of this thesis, it firstly introduces the development of word cultural additional meaning theory, then classifies animal words into four classes according to the different source of the words cultural meanings, and finally chooses five kinds of representative animal words to analysis. The third part is the analysis of searching for the teaching methods of animal words in Chinese teaching as a foreign language, from three aspects:phonetics, semantics and pragmatics. We put forward the teaching methods and suggestions according to different categories of animal words. The fourth part is the conclusion, which summarizes the viewpoints and shortcomings of this thesis. The Chinese animal words have rich cultural meanings, we believes that only using the appropriate methods in Chinese vocabulary teaching, let the students know the profound cultural connotation behind each words, students can master the vocabularies very well.