A Research On The Historical Changes In The Formulation And Adjustment Of HSK Outline

The outline of HSK has had great influences on not only the drawing up of the outline for teaching and the compiling of teaching materials but also researches on the language essence since it was published. It has greatly promoted the development of HSK and CAFL (Chinese as a foreign language). This paper has thoroughly summarized the drawing up and the adjustment of the outline of HSK by combining theories with practices, qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis, description with explanation, comparison with induction. Based on the outline of the Graded Vocabulary for HSK, this paper will examine its changes as well as its focus of attention from experts.Apart from summarizing the comments on the outline of the Graded Vocabulary for HSK, the paper has carefully compared the outline of the Graded Vocabulary for HSK (1992) with its revised edition. It indicates the incompletion and inadequacy of the current the outline of the Graded Vocabulary for HSK and offers some pieces of advice which are ready for the regulation of the outline for the next step. The author sincerely hopes that...