少儿汉语教材如何走向本土化——基于近20年国际少儿汉语教材的分析

Localization Approaches to Chinese L2 Textbooks for Children:An Analysis of International Chinese Textbooks for Children Published in Recent 20 Years

基于1999至2018年间出版的148种国际少儿汉语教材,从教材的适用对象、出版年份、编写理念等角度讨论了少儿汉语教材近20年来呈现出的发展趋势。一方面,随着教材面向对象年龄的增长,少儿汉语教材在课容量、编写理念上都有所调整;另一方面,从时间角度看,前后10年出版的教材在类型、内容、形式方面也存在诸多不同。其中最突出的转变是少儿汉语教材呈现出鲜明的国别化、本土化趋势。不同国家的外语能力培养目标、语言课程大纲、外语考试都在方方面面规定并影响着少儿汉语教材的编写。

Based on 148 international Chinese L2 textbooks for children published at home and abroad from 1999 to 2018,this study discusses the development trend of Chinese L2 textbooks for children in recent 20 years from the perspectives of their application targets,publication years and compilation principles.On the one hand,with the growth of the targeted learners′age,such textbooks have been modified in the course contents and compilation principles;on the other hand,from the temporal perspective,there are quite a few differences in the types,contents and forms of the textbooks published in the former ten years and the latter ten years.The most prominent change is that such textbooks show a distinction in terms of country-specificness and localization.The training objectives for foreign language ability,the language syllabus and foreign language examinations in different countries all guide and affect the compilation of Chinese L2 textbooks for children.