Currently, Communicative Language Teaching has been popular around the world and has a profound effect on second language acquisition since the 1970s. For Communicative Language Teaching to be successful, there is a need for appropriate teaching materials. This paper analyzes speaking tasks in Chinese and Swedish textbooks for grade 8,Go for it and Magic. The analysis presents content analysis,...

Audiolingualism and Communicative Language Teaching are two pedagogies both of foreign origin, however, they have made drastically different impact on English Language Teaching in China. The paper explains from a cultural perspective why audiolingualism is painlessly integrated into traditional Chinese approach of English learning while Communicative Language Teaching seems to have encountered ...

Recitation is a traditional practice in Chinese literacy education and later was transferred to English Language Teaching (ELT) in China. This article, taking the example of recitation, conducts an analysis of traditional Chinese language teaching which is expected to yield implications for current ELT in China. This research has reached the conclusion that certain aspects of traditional langua...

To learn a language, we must know its characters, and then expand step by to vocabulary, grammar so on. However, phonetics, vocabulary have always been the core elements of teaching Chinese as foreign characters has in subordinate position, relatively lagging behind. At same time, input both human material resources is very little, resulting phenomenon that many learners can only listen speak, ...

Almost all higher institutions in Malaysia offer Chinese as a second language (some may consider as a third language) course. Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman offers an elective subject called ‘Introduction to Chinese Language I’ to teach the basis of Chinese to non-Chinese educated students. In general, the majority of foreign language is taught face-to-face in classrooms. There are three crucial...

The article examines the use of the applied linguistics technologies in the teaching of orientalistics in the Russian Federation higher education system. The research discloses the methods of the terminological units extracting using texts in Chinese studies of the modern Afghanistan. The author shows the solutions for intensive summarization and annotation of Chinese texts and language teachin...