The Comparative Study Of Business Chinese Readers Series And Chinese For Managers Series

With China’s rapid rising in economy and growing world trade, the importance oflearning Chinese is increasingly prominent worldwide. Meanwhile, Chinese for specificpurpose is born with the tide, in which business Chinese takes the lead. In the secondlanguage teaching process, textbooks play very important roles. They are the basis of classactivities, and are the main sources for the second language learners.Nevertheless,there are rare business Chinese teaching textbooks and research papers,and the field of elementary business Chinese textbooks is almost blank. This article aimsto do a comparative study of these two representative elementary business Chinesetextbooks: Business Chinese Readers series and Chinese for Managers series, in order tocarry forward the advantages and abandon these shortcomings, what is more, to supplysomething can be used for reference in the business Chinese textbook construction in thefuture.First of all, the article makes a review of the history of comparative study of Chinesetextbooks and business Chinese textbooks for foreigners, and summarizes the compilingtheories and basic principles of the Chinese textbooks; Secondly, the article explains thedefinition of "Business Chinese" and characteristics of business Chinese, briefly analyzingthe purpose of business Chinese class, characteristics of business Chinese learners,points of teaching of business Chinese etc; Thirdly, it makes a detailed comparative studyand research mainly on the following aspects: the macro perspective, the text part, wordsselection, grammar explanation, exercises arrangement, cultural introduction; The last butnot the least, the author gives the comments and suggestions, hoping to advance thequality of future business Chinese textbooks.