Author(s)

Yuan Xiaoying ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Foriegn Languages, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 100089, China

Corresponding Author

Yuan Xiaoying

ABSTRACT

Sense of Culture is crucial in the teaching of Chinese as a second language, and culture-loaded words are one of the tools for teaching culture. CHINESE BRIDGE Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students has been very popular for learners from all over the world who learns Chinese as a second or a foreign language, and has contained more and more cultural sense in its sections of speech and debate. This study aims to analyze the use of culture-loaded words formulated by the contestants in the 18th and 19th CHINESE BRIDGE Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students, adopting two methods: literature research and statistical analysis. In order to ensure the scientific nature of the study results, this research compares the use of culture-loaded words with the outline of The Graded Vocabulary for HSK, and finds that: Firstly, their use of more concrete and practical culture-loaded words prove to be similar to what HSK requires. Secondly, although they used more linguistical and ideological culture-loaded words, they show less frequencies of use of the linguistically culture-loaded words than that that HSK requires but more of the ideologically culture-loaded words. Thirdly, the culture-loaded words they used is commonly simple but relatively flexible and casual. Finally, the use and training of culture-loaded words with more linguistic properties should be strengthened and improved both in classes and by themselves, with the other types of culture-loaded words retaining current cultivation rhythms.

KEYWORDS

Culture-loaded words, Literature research, Statistical analysis

CITE THIS PAPER

Yuan Xiaoying, An Analysis on the Application of Culture-Loaded Words in the 18th and 19th Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2022) Vol. 6: 89-98. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2022.060117.

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