Research Of Qi Language Textbook By Shigeo Yoshitaka

This article is the first linguistic study about Additional Qi Language Textbook,which is the primary conversational teaching materials by the sinology scholar Shigeo Yoshitaka of the Meiji period in Japan.The textbook is a national textbook,it is suitable for Japanese who learn primary Chinese conversational.Teaching materials were written according to conversation central idea of Meji period.This book was aimed at how to speaking Chinese with chinese person.This article includes six parts:The first chapter introduces the significance of the topic in this paper.It also gives a brief review of the current research status of the Chinese textbooks in the Meiji period in Japan and China,and introduces the research theories,research methods and sources of corpus used in this article.The second chapter researches the author's life and the background of the Additional Qing Language Textbook,and introduces the compilation style and the general situation of the book.The Additional Qing Language Textbook was completed in 1902.This article uses reprint version published in 1904.In the context of the Meiji Restoration,most of the Chinese language teaching book in Japan was prepared for invasion of China.The goal of the textbook was to allow students to speak as early as possible.Therefore,the writing focuses on the arrangement of vocabulary and daily question and answer.It does not pay attention to the teaching of pronunciation and grammar.The practice ways simplified.Only use translation to review grammar points,and there is no practice of voice.The third chapter studies the phonetic system of the Additional Qing LanguageTextbook.This textbook used the Japanese kana-tagging method to teach phonetic.There is a little discussion of Chinese pronunciation rules in the textbooks,but there lacking of detailed teaching and basic exercises of Chinese pronunciation.This chapter analyzes whether the arrangement of phonetic teaching is reasonable by analyzing the content of the Japanese kana-tagging method.The fourth chapter sorts out the vocabulary part of Additional Qing Language Textbook and explores the criteria for the author's choice of vocabulary.In this chapter,I try to summarize the textbook's success and failure in vocabulary selection and identify whether it comforms to the characteristics of primary Chinese conversational materials.The vocabulary teaching method used in the teaching materials is refined and summarized to analyze wheather the teaching method is scientific and effective.The fifth chapter analyzes the characteristics of grammar teaching in Additional Qing Language Textbook from the perspective of the parts of speech and sentence category.It enumerates the classification of the parts of speech in the textbook and analyzes the rationality of this division,and focuses on the analysis of the teaching of quantifiers,adverbs and adjectives.The point of sentence category is the analysis of imperative sentences and interrogative sentences teaching.And finally,this chapter summed up the book's success and failure in grammar teaching.The sixth chapter makes a comprehensive evaluation of the Additional Qing Language Textbook.On the one hand,the author is worthy of affirming the macro control of the teaching materials.The texts of this textbook are in line with the communication requirments at that time and can help us to study the development of the Beijing Mandarin.On the other hand,under the influence of conversationism,the editors introduce a little pronunciation and grammar,but it is not enough.It lacks of speech exercises and linguistic grammar knowledge,and grammar practice type is monotonous.All of these things are this textbook's shortcomings.