On The Creative Teaching Of Chinese Idioms In The Senior Stage Of Chinese International Education

Chinese Idiom has a long history, concentrating China’s five thousand years ofcivilization, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. After along-term precipitation, it becomes the conventional terms, known as the ‘livingfossil’ of Chinese culture. In Chinese culture, the use of idioms can be seeneverywhere, and the frequency of use is also high. It has a huge number, and reflectsthe unique Chinese way of thinking and national psychology. Therefore, in order tolearn and understand Chinese culture well, we must pay attention to learn Chineseidioms.Chinese idioms are the point of interest and also a difficulty for the seniorstudents to learn Chinese. This is because to senior students, understanding Chinese isa qualitative leap in life and learning. It inevitably has to come into contact with alarge number of idioms. Yet due to lack of understanding of Chinese culture and theimpact of negative transfer, idioms which carry long history and culture of China havebecome a learning obstacle for students on senior stage. Idioms are really difficult tobe understood by foreign students, but the stories in most of the Chinese idiomstrigger their strong interests and desire to study. It can be said that the majority of theoverseas students hate Chinese idioms but also love them at the same time, becausethey are quite aware that conquering this storm means a great pace advanced in theirChinese language skills. This is the inevitable problems in Teaching Chinese as aForeign Language.Piaget, the father of modern psychology, said,‘all the intelligence work shoulddepend on the interest.’ Einstein also said,‘interest is the best teacher’. Interest isindispensable to stimulate the enthusiasm of students and enhance the learningefficiency. Based on shallow analysis and discussion in the past works of theories,starting with the phrase itself, the thesis analyzed the characteristics of the idioms andthe status and shortage in teaching Chinese Idioms, and expounded the necessity and importance of teaching Chinese Idioms. Trying to summed up the idiom teachingfrom the perspective of students’ interest, introducing creative teaching to the Chineseidioms teaching, the author hopes use them to expand the students’ vocabulary andword-guessing ability to improve the reading skills of students and idioms ability tounderstand the culture, so that students can understand and use idioms correctly,raising the level of Chinese language learning, At the same time the author hopes thisthesis can provide some help to Chinese learners and Chinese international educationteachers to provide ideas and inspiration in idiom teaching and research for future.