On Cultivating Oral Communicative Micro-skills In TCFL

With rapid development, the world has now become smaller and smaller. More and more people have accepted the concept of"global village". Under this background, the communication among all the countries and nations becomes more and more important. Especially because China greatly enhanced its international position, learning the Chinese language has become a trend all over the world.As a jumped-up subject, TCFL has undergone half a century's development and gained a lot of achievements. Before 1980's, the main purpose of TCFL was to cultivate the students'language skills. In the class, the teachers mainly taught the students Chinese knowledge such as basic grammar and vocabulary, and trained the students how to listen, speak, read and write. In 1980's, we established the overall purpose of TCFL. That is, to cultivate the students'communicative competence in Chinese.This paper adopts the methods of reviewing the literature and summarizing the experience. In the beginning, it emphasizes the importance of cultivating the communicative competence, and then discusses the connotation of communicative competence and oral ability. On the basis of the researches in micro-skills at home and abroad, this paper outlines and describes the micro-skills in oral Chinese teaching, and further discusses how to train these micro-skills in detail. At the end, this paper expatiates on the aim, teaching contents, principles, methods and techniques of developing oral communicative competence in TCFL.