Investigation And Analysis Of Stylistic Situation In Intermediate And Advanced Level Textbooks

It is easy to understand that a successful conversation is not only accurate in grammar but also befitting the occasion. Therefore, the cultivation of the communicative competence becomes the main task during Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL). However, it is always found that those people who study Chinese as their second language couldn't use well what they have learned to appropriately communicate with others, that is to say, they couldn't use language to do things in their daily life without difficulties. In this paper, the author thinks that it is because those learners are deficient in "stylistic competence", which means a person is capable of choosing appropriate language varieties to communicate for different classic contexts. At the same time, in the process of language study, textbooks are one of key factors, for it both offers corpora and context of language study. Based on such analysis, this paper believes that it is inadequate attention to the application of corpora context that leads to the deficiency of "stylistic competence" of Chinese language learners. Therefore, this paper hopes to test this hypothesis by investigating the textbooks and certain materials referring writings, for which the author think that a person's writing competence can well reflect his language competence, to offer some useful data for the compiling of Chinese language textbooks for people who study Chinese as their second language. This paper will analyze the stylistic situation of textbooks which are popularized in many areas by using quantitative analysis. The whole paper will discuss in four parts:Chapter1:general introduction of certain conception about stylistic and correspondent theory, and also its research situation.Chapter2:by using quantitative analysis, this chapter will investigate some corpora of popular textbooks "New Practical Chinese Reader", "Boya Chinese" and "Advanced Writing Books" used for intermediate and advanced level Chinese language learners. In this chapter, the author hopes to find the problem about stylistic actually exist in such textbooks.Chapter3:By investigate the composition situation of HSK(from 2005,5 to 2005,9) of intermediate and advanced level that is level C according to Beijing language university's standard, this chapter wants to prove that there is stylistic problem in students' compositions which at the same time are mainly due to the textbooks.Chapter4:Put forward the author's own proposals and suggestions on how to improving stylistic problems of the textbooks, hoping for offering some new ideas and thoughts for the compile of Chinese language textbooks.