A Comparative Analysis Of The Current Chinese Textbooks In Costa Rican Middle Schools

As a basis for classroom teaching and testing,the textbook for teaching Chinese as a foreign language occupies a very important position in the whole process of Chinese teaching.Therefore,it is especially important to select Chinese textbooks suitable for the learning situation of Chinese learners in different countries.However,due to the late Chinese language courses in Costa Rica and the scattered teaching points,there has been very little research on the situation of Chinese teaching in Costa Rica and the Chinese textbooks used.Therefore,this article takes the two textbooks Chinese Paradise and Happy Chinese,which are now widely used in Costa Rican Middle School,as an example,combining the actual situation of local students learning Chinese and using Chinese textbooks and local Chinese teacher volunteers.The actual teaching situation,under the guidance of the theory of writing Chinese textbooks for foreign languages,using the literature research method,comparative analysis method,interview method and inductive summarization method,make an in-depth evaluation of the writing principles and subject knowledge of these two textbooks.Through comparative research,the author analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the two textbooks,and combines the author’s teaching practices,in order to put forward some suggestions for the compilation of localized Chinese textbooks in Costa Rica.This article mainly includes the following seven parts:The introduction part will mainly introduce the background of the topic,the research status,the research object,the research method and the key and difficult issues of the research.The first chapter gives a brief introduction to the current situation of Chinese teaching in Costa Rica.This chapter mainly includes two parts: The first part mainly introduces some local Chinese language courses,The education institution and the school profile,the second part is the specific situation of the Chinese language courseof the Costa Rican public school,including the introduction of the Chinese course and the analysis of the characteristics of the learners.The second chapter is a comparative analysis of the use of the two most widely used textbooks Chinese Paradise and Happy Chinese in Costa Rican Middle School,including the publication and distribution of these two textbooks,the specific use of students and the actual teaching process.The problems reflected in it.The third chapter is a concrete comparative analysis of the writing principles and content structure of these two Chinese textbooks.Firstly,the author introduces the principles and content structure of the two textbooks separately,summarizes and analyzes their characteristics,and then focuses on comparing the two in writing.Differences in principles and content structure.The fourth chapter is to compare and analyze the main contents of the two textbooks,including the comparison of topic content selection and topic selection suggestions,the comparison of vocabulary and the comparison of word arrangement,the comparison of Chinese characters and the introduction of cultural elements.The fifth chapter is aimed at the preparation of Goss localization textbooks,including the importance of implementing the compilation of nationalized Chinese textbooks and the enlightenment of the compilation of Gossian-specific Chinese textbooks.The sixth chapter is the summary and reflection of the research.