《华语入门》教材的编写原则探究

On Serge N. Usoff’s A Course of Colloquial Chinese and Its Compiling Principles

吴索福编写的《华语入门》是20世纪中叶影响较大的一部由外国人编写、供外国人学习汉语的教材,但是国内外对该教材的研究非常有限,而从教材编写角度对该教材的研究则尚未问世。本文从汉语教材编写理论的角度出发探讨该教材的编写原则。研究表明,《华语入门》较好地体现了教材编写的实用性、科学性、针对性和交际性原则。我们期望本文能为当今国别化汉语教材的编写和研究提供借鉴。

Serge N. Usoff’s A Course of Colloquial Chinese was an influential foreigner-oriented Chinese textbook written by a non-Chinese speaker in the mid-20 th century. However, there is little research into this book and no research could be found about this book from the perspective of textbook compilation. The present article aims to analyze and discuss how this textbook reflects the main principles and theories of textbook compilation from various aspects. It shows that this textbook is a good embodiment of such principles as applicability, pertinence, communicativeness, and scientificness. The authors hope that the results of this study can be used for reference in the compilation of and research into country-specific Chinese teaching materials.