On Lexical Teaching Strategies In Teaching Chinese To Korean:a Perspective Of Cross-cultural Communication

TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a foreign Language) has developed rapidly as a specialized subject. In the field of TCFL, more than400textbooks of various kinds and levels have been compiled, and several hundred scientific research programs completed, while seldom researches in a cross-cultural communication context, have been carried out in TCFL, especially in its vocabulary teaching for the Korean learners.Language and culture are closely interrelated. The glamour of Chinese culture and Korean culture most preponderantly comes to our awareness through the medium of its language. The vocabulary of a language is the fundamental and mainstay of that language and is also the most active factor of that language, as it can most sensitively reflect the changes in social life and social ideology of the people using that language. Therefore, cultural distinction is most conspicuously reflected on the vocabulary. Culture is nationally based, so is lexical item. Vocabulary is the essential factor of both language and culture. It plays a central role in TCFL. A good knowledge of the cultural difference of the vocabulary between the Chinese language and Korean language can reduce the misunderstanding of the culture or pragmatic mistakes to a minimum.This paper focuses on a comparative study of culture of Chinese and Korean in the cognitive perspective, custom culture, regional culture, surname and appellation culture and history culture, in order to explore effective modes of lexical teaching for TCFL through analyzing the similarities and dissimilarities of the Chinese and Korean vocabulary and its implication for the vocabulary teaching. Distinctive cultural connotation of the two languages is particular dealt with in this paper. On the basis of the comparative study, several suggestions are made for the pattern of cultural infiltration in lexical teaching of TCFL,Under a circumstance of globalization and ever-increasing exchanges among different cultures, introducing cultural elements into lexical teaching should be the general trend, and be propitious to the effectiveness of Chinese lexical teaching to the Korean learners.