| Promoting Chinese around the world and teaching Chinese as a foreign language has been pushed to a new situation. At the same time, the discourse grammar crosses the barrier of sentence-based grammar, and gives teaching Chinese as a second language a new field of vision and thinking space.The intermediate Chinese stage is the most pivotal stage that Chinese learners go through in breaking through the language bottleneck. This is the beginning of forming a discourse consciousness and having language competence. During this period, learners need to feel the context and logical relationship of words,which is dependent upon fundamental language knowledge and basic vocabulary. Consequently, the intermediate stage teaching books and teaching methods should also follow the discourse theory. This will help overcome the shortfalls in the traditional teaching methods, and establish a completely different teaching purpose.This paper examines discourse as basic theory by comparing two sets of Chinese textbooks that are used widely in China. It will also separately analyze the the two sets of textbooks which carry out the discourse grammar theory, and then put forward some suggestions. In addition, this paper will also discuss teaching methods of intermediate Chinese. It will discuss teaching method as a supplement to the textbooks in order to improve the teaching of quality intermediate Chinese in order to make the students’ step into advanced Chinese successful. |
