On The Translation And Explanation Of The Vocabulary In The800Chinese Words

The teaching of vocabulary plays an important role in TCFL. At the elementary stage, learners could benefit tremendously by the english translation and explanation of the Chinese vocabulary in a TCFL textbook, which could effectively help to pave the road for the learners to a good command of the Chinese words, as long as they are properly prepared.But in real teaching situations, once english used, learners could easily misunderstand and misuse the Chinese words, as a result of their neglectiog the lexical differences between english and Chinese.This paper analyzes the translation and explanation of the vocabulary in a TCFL textbook and classifies the erros into several classifies and argues that such a guideline should be established to direct and examine the translation and explanation:the translation and explanation should be simple and clear, and effective in helping the learner to understand and use the Chinese words properly.