| Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, short for MTCSOL, is aim to nurture International Chinese Teachers. The master degree is granting to both Chinese and international students. Full-time Programs for Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages for International Students has set the entry requirements. Only the students who already have at least a BA degree can apply for the master degree, furthermore, they should reach a certain Chinese level, love Chinese culture and volunteer engaged in Chinese teaching and disseminating. For a better learning of the specialized courses and effectively implementing the training objectives, the requirement of Chinese level for international students is depends on each university itself. Generally speaking, the international students should reach at least level 5 of HSK. Present level of Chinese is the bases of studying MTCSOL and the related knowledge. Advanced Chinese, as one of the core courses, runs through the whole teaching and learning process of every subject. As it is focus on written language teaching, it will help the international students of MTCSOL who already reached HSK level 5 to improve their comprehensive capacity of Chinese, and help them to make a solid foundation for theoretical knowledge and further studying. The curriculum of MTCSOL divided into three types:core course, extension course and practice course. Advanced Chinese Course in Lanzhou University, also called Chinese Basic Course, belongs to one of the most important public courses, with a total of 4 credit points. The international students of MTCSOL who entered Lanzhou University in the year of 2013 have several characteristics in common as follow:lack of written expressions ability, slightly inaccurate in their oral tone and lack of writing ability. New Perspective:Advanced Chinese aim at the students who have reached intermediate and high level, with features as follow:the book focus on reality, relativity and variety, the texts are all based on true corpus, it has plenty of teaching tasks to let the students have more chance to practice. Although it has its unique features of strong practicality, it also has the shortcoming. As the teaching hours are four times a week, it is too short for finishing the whole book in just one semester. There are several words which are too abstract because the material are all coming from the real life, so it is very difficult for students to understand. All the vocabulary and the linguistic points are explain in English, some of expression is very simple. It is hard for the students to learn the book by themselves. When using Advanced Chinese as the teaching material, it is important to follow the its applicability principle which included regard written language teaching as the main part, emphasis on the negative transfer of language, pay attention to the combination between language knowledge and professional knowledge, focus on the cultural penetration; improve the ability both in oral speaking and writing, the principle of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, principle of systematization and the principle on linking theory with practice together.Advanced Chinese has its own unique features and special teaching methods in pronunciation, grammar, Chinese characters, vocabulary and Chinese cultural. In this paper, several suggestions for solving the problems and optimization measures have been listed. |
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