Teaching Design Of TCFL Intermediate Reading Course Based On "Advance Organizer" Strategy

Reading course is one of the most important types of courses in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.It is a single skill class to help students stimulate their interest in reading,understand the content of texts,master reading skills,and develop good reading habits.The intermediate level is the transitional stage of comprehensively improve the comprehensive reading ability of Chinese,and it is a critical period for reading teaching.However,through classroom observation,we find that there are still many common problems in the intermediate Chinese reading classes: Teachers have a poor grasp of the teaching objectives,emphasizing knowledge explanation and neglecting method teaching;The teaching mode is single,usually starting from vocabulary and grammar,explaining the text and exercises;The main position of students is not clear,and the classroom atmosphere is dull;Students’ lack of vocabulary and background knowledge of Chinese culture bias their understanding of the text.Through the literature research method,based on the explanation of problems and analysis of the causes,we explain what positive effects the advance organizer strategy has on solving the above problems.In other words,the advantages of its application in teaching intermediate reading in Chinese as a foreign language are explained,and a concrete text is selected for teaching design to further illustrate how the advance organizer strategy can be applied to concrete reading teaching.Through teaching practice and interviews with teachers and students,we conclude that the advance organizer strategy plays a positive role in optimizing reading teaching mode,solving cross-cultural problems in reading teaching,helping teachers methodically organize reading materials,helping students consolidate previous knowledge and expand new knowledge,and optimizing teacher-student interaction.First of all,this study describes the basic theory of the advance organizer strategy,the characteristics and the problems of teaching intermediate reading in Chinese as a foreign language.Accordingly,we analyze the feasibility of applying the advance organizer strategy to the teaching of reading in Chinese as a foreign language.Next,we select the close reading text “From Big to Small-Chinese Ways of Thinking”in “Developing Chinese-Intermediate Reading Ⅱ” as an example.And design the teaching according to the requirements of the close reading text.In this design,all kinds of advance organizer strategies can be appropriately applied to the teaching of reading in Chinese as a foreign language.Finally,we evaluates this teaching design and proposes suggestions for the use of the advance organizer strategy from the perspectives of teachers and of students,in order to make it work better in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.