地方文化与对外汉语教学——以南通为例

Local culture and teaching Chinese as a foreign language——Taking Nantong as an example

文章探讨了在对外汉语教学中有效利用地方文化资源的重要性和必要性,并以江苏省中等城市南通为例,探寻如何帮助留学生尽快适应南通地方文化语境,具体策略有:合理的课程设置、配套文化教材的编写以及灵活的课堂教学模式。在对外汉语教学中融入地方文化,一方面更好的服务于语言学习,提高留学生综合汉语能力;另一方面保护、推进地方文化、提升城市形象,进而吸引更多的留学生,形成可持续发展的良性循环。

Local culture refers to the experience of everyday life as lived by ordinary people in specific localities. Distance, borders and time are the three characteristics of local culture. The development of local culture was the main concern in globalization era. Local culture shares crucial position in Chinese teaching as well. This thesis discusses the importance of local culture in Chinese teaching and with the instance of Nantong, a medium-size city in Jiangsu, it aims at using Nantong local cultural resources in Chinese teaching in order to help foreign students to adapt to Nantong cuhural context. The corresponding strategies are as follows： reasonable curriculum; suitable text books; flexible teaching model. Thus, on the one hand it improves students＇ comprehensive Chinese learning ability and on the other hand it protects and promotes Nantong culture. Furthermore, it helps to attract more students, forming sustained development circle.