Research On Readability Of You Are The One-Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook

This article focus on the readability of You Are the One—Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook that published in 2014. The analysis based on the former research of the readability of the Chinese audio-visual textbooks in TCFL.In recent years, audio-visual teaching methodology became more and more popular because of its direct teaching method, the real language environment and its strong practicability. As the main carrier of teaching, the importance textbook is evident. Review the audio-visual textbooks of teaching Chinese as a foreign language that published before, mostly originated from the movies or TV series. As the first audio-visual textbook that originated from TV program, if the readability of You Are the One—Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook is suitable for advanced learners of Chinese language teaching remains to be proven.We try to analysis the readability of You Are the One——Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook from the following aspects:1st. The difficulty level of "You Are the One— Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook".2nd. Except for the factors in "Five Elements Quantitative Analysis Method for Readability" that proposed by ZhangLu and PengYanli, whether there are other factors affect the readability of audio-visual textbook.We selected 64 hundred-character paragraphs from 16 texts in You Are the One— Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook, after statistical analysis it is concluded that:1st. The difficulty coefficient of You Are the One—Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook is 39.29, suitable for teaching advanced Chinese learners that have mastered about 3500 Chinese words.2nd. According to the difficulty coefficient in every text, the arrangement of the text in You Are the One—Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook is irregularity.3rd. The uncommon use words, the new words and the grammatical items in You Are the One — Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook is reasonable, but the sentences are too long, and the speed is a little fast.4th. In addition to the average sentence length, average uncommon use words, the average amount of new words, grammatical items, average speed and other factors, the cultural factors, the use of network language and the video corpora in language standardization, the presence of situational factors in the textbook will also affect the readability of audio-visual textbook.5th.Compared with the audio-visual textbooks that originated from movies or TV series, You Are the One—Chinese Senior Audio-visual Textbook that originate from TV program is more authenticity and directness.