商务汉语教学的认识误区

Confusions in Business Chinese Teaching

本文对以商务汉语为代表的专门用途汉语教学中的几个常见误区进行分析,并得出以下结论:1.商务汉语不一定是单一的一种语言社会变体;2.商务汉语的特点不只体现在词汇层面;3.商务汉语不一定只是工作或专业学习活动中使用的语言;4.商务汉语教学不一定只能在具有一定汉语基础之后再开始;5.商务汉语教师不一定要熟悉与商务相关的专业知识。

This paper tries to answer five common confusing questionsin teaching Chinese for specific purposes, represented by business Chinese, and draws the following conclusions: 1. business Chinese is not a unitary social variety of the language; 2. features of business Chinese go beyond the lexical level; 3. business Chinese is not only used in work or professional studies; 4. it is not true that only when one has reached a certain level of Chinese proficiency can one begin to learn business Chinese; 5. it is not necessary that teachers of business Chinese should be equipped with professional knowledge of business.