On The Application Of The Contrastive Studies Of Chinese Grammar And English Grammar To The Grammar Teaching Of Teaching Chinese As A Second Language

In the 21^st century, with the development of the global economy, the communication between different countries has been getting more and more important. Thus it is imperative for us to take some measures to solve the language problem. Improving the teaching method of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language is one of such measures.It is the variety of the world's languages that leads to the comparability of these languages. Comparative linguistics works at this kind of study and has a positive influence on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.Comparative Linguistics is originated from the western countries, which is also spread and applied greatly in China, especially in the field of contrastive studies on Chinese grammar and English grammar. It is the best way to improve the teaching of both foreign language and second language. Moreover, it is able to help students study target language and overcome negative transfer from their own language.Contrastive analysis is applied to study language, which is a symbol system withcertain sound images and meanings. Each language is composed of three parts ------phonemes, lexis and grammar, among which grammar is of great importance because of its obvious national characteristics. So it is necessary for us to focus on the contrastive studies of grammar, esp. in the field of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.Due to the great importance of grammar teaching in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, it is essential to be clear about what grammar teaching includes. Mr. Lu once proposed three important Chinese grammar phenomena, namely, the grammar phenomenon which only exists in Chinese and students always find difficult, the use of the function words and some common synonymous sentences. That is to say, we are supposed to regard the comparison between languages seriously. Through such comparison, we should try to find out the difference and similarity of different languages, and apply what we found to the grammar teaching of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language so as to help students have a good command of Chinese most efficiently.This paper, based on the theory of comparative linguistics, compares Chinese grammar with English grammar, mainly including syntax and lexis comparison, and applies such contrastive analysis to the grammar teaching of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. The whole paper is divided into four chapters as follows:Introduction: to introduce theory of contrastive analysis, to talk about the purpose and significance of this study.Chapter1: to make a comparison between Chinese lexis and English lexisChapter2: to make a comparison between Chinese syntax and English syntaxChapter3: to find out similarity between Chinese and EnglishChapter4: to analyze the errors found in the grammar teaching of Teaching Chinese as a Second LanguageConclusion: summary and generalization of this paper...