Review Of Thomas Francis Wade’s Yu Yen Tzu Erh Chi With Compiling Principles On The Teaching Materials In Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Lansuaee

Yu Yen Tzu erh Chi is the first textbook. which is based on the descriptive linguistic and aimed at teaching Chinese as a foreign language in the19th century. It is written by Thomas Wade who was a British ambassador to China. His record and analysis about pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar of Beijing dialect in this book is actually a valuable corpus for scholars to study Beijing spoken language of that time. This thesis focuses on the compiling principles applied by Thomas Wade in his compiling of Yu Yen Tzu erh Chi, which has been paid less attention to compared with the studies of Yu Yen Tzu erh Chi from the perspectives of linguistics, vocabulary, phonetics and culture, It tries to analyze how the four compiling principles of being pertinent, practical. interesting and scientific are applied in Yu Yen Tzu erh Chi, which is of great significance to the compiling of teaching materials for teaching Chinese as a foreign language today.