A Comparative Study Of Audio-visual Teaching Materials For Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language

With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in 2020,China fully demonstrated its responsibility as a major country in the battle against the epidemic,sparing no effort to support countries in shortage of materials and manpower,enhancing its international influence and enhancing the enthusiasm of people in many countries for learning Chinese.Under the impact of this background,Chinese as a foreign language teaching materials have emerged one after another.Audio-visual teaching materials integrate "seeing","listening" and "speaking" into one,and stand out with great richness and interest,and well balance the two purposes of "language learning" and "cultural learning".However,due to the short time of attention,relatively few studies and long intervals,the research of audio-visual teaching materials in Chinese is weak.And through the existing research also found the existence of many problems,for example,the development of writing and publishing is immature,the quality of published textbooks is uneven,the most important problem is the lack of high-quality textbooks.Therefore,"Teaching materials for Speaking Chinese as a foreign language" is worth studying.The research of Chinese audio-visual teaching materials is mainly divided into the following two categories: case study and multi-book comparative study.In the comparative study of multiple books,there are two or more books in terms of quantity;In terms of types,there are comparative studies on Chinese audio-visual teaching materials and Chinese-English audio-visual teaching materials;In terms of aspects,most of them compare text and audiovisual content,focusing on writing ideas,structure,main content,corpus difficulty analysis,audiovisual content,cultural input and other aspects,while some only focus on one aspect.This paper chooses Stories around Chinese People · Xia and Happy Chinese 1,which involves a comparative study of two Chinese audio-visual teaching materials.It mainly makes a comparison of the writing concept,structure,main content,audio-visual content and cultural content of the two teaching materials,hoping to make a modest contribution to the development of audio-visual teaching materials for teaching Chinese as a foreign language.In order to make the comparative study more scientific,the author mainly used data statistics,comparative analysis and chart statistics,and did a lot of statistical work,and found that the two textbooks have advantages and disadvantages,but in general,"Happy Chinese" is more innovative,"Stories around Chinese People" is relatively traditional,and finally gave suggestions for shortcomings.