The Research On The English Annotation And Translation Of Vocabulary In Elementary TCSL Textbooks

The study of vocabulary is an elementary and key part in second language studying.English language which is used as the medium language in most of the current TCSL textbooks to annotate the new words,has become the bridge between the two languages,as well as the basis of foreign students' vocabulary learning,helping foreign students to form the initial recognition of Chinese vocabulary.During the elementary stage,foreign students tend to rely much on the intermediate language,as a result,English annotation accuracy and effectiveness can make a great influence to vocabulary learning,even the comprehensive study of second language.Taking Boya Chinese(elementary,the second version)as the main research object and a point of penetration,concerning other current TCSL textbooks,the thesis inducts 11 typical vocabulary annotation methods in elementary TCSL textbooks from the perspective of semantics,syntax and pragmatics.Then,try to put forward the general principles as well as comprehensive,practicable vocabulary annotation solutions in elementary TCSL textbooks basing on the investigating of annotation methods distribution and application to different kinds of words.In this way,the thesis proposes more practical suggestions for elementary TCSL textbooks.In addition,the thesis analyzes all the vocabulary annotations in Boya Chinese(elementary,the second version),which was published in the year of 2013.All the problems can be concluded in four aspects: editing,semantics,syntax and pragmatics,and then proposes suggestions concerning the editing of the textbooks and the need of the users.Through analyzing foreign students' errors and the HSK corpus in Beijing Language and Culture University,and the correlation between the errors cases of foreign students and English annotations of TCSL textbooks,the thesis presents the facts of vocabulary strategy methodology.