Views On Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language And Its Dialect Environment

Based on the reality of Chinese existing circumstances and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in China, the following three questions have been proposed to be discussed in this paper:(1)Chinese is not a unitary language form but is such a language reality that only one Common Speech and many different Chinese dialects live together;(2)All of the dialect factors that influence or interfere the Teaching Chinese as a foreign language constitute the conception of dialect environment;(3)Both the realization of teaching language and that of teaching target language in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language requires the support of strategy theoretically.To resolve the above three questions, I studied the related works of both the elder and today's scholars and summarized my own experience in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Thus, the following ideas have been formed initially.That which is called Modern Han Nationality Common Language, i.e. Putonghua, means only an imaginary language situation, and the existing reality of Putonghua especially local Putonghua together with dialects is indeed the real Chinese in China. The work of promoting the use of Putonghua has been carried out for several decades, however it is impossible to popularize it in a short period of time because of the high complexity and wide distribution of the Chinese dialects in addition to the inertia of language. Local Putonghua appearing in some large or medium cities may be regarded as the concession of dialect to Putonghua. However, the so-called local Putonghua was not completely separated from dialect and still remains some intrinsic dialect constituents, so it may also be regarded as a mutation of dialect.Approaching the above questions from the viewpoint of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language leads us to pay attention to the following facts: On one hand, the teachers, the teaching managers as well as the textbooks are strictly required to have good quality Putonghua, but in fact, some dialect constituents are still revealed unintentionally to a fair extent; on the other hand, although the foreign students learn Putonghua in school, the languages they come into contact with are usually dialects. Both of the dialect factors discussed above which exist both in school and daily life...