ANALYZE CHINESE TEACHING LISTENING, SPEAKING, READING, WRITING AND TRANSLATING AND THE HSK TEST

Language educators have conducted millions of research in order to find the best strategy to help language learners, especially second language learners, to systematically learn another language. In order to test one’s language abilities, proper testing programs are a must. This essay will discuss the five different aspects when teaching Chinese, which are listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation, and the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK). The HSK test is an international standardized test of Chinese language proficiency, and it is established to test the Chinese learnings for non-native Chinese speakers. It can accurately measure the Chinese level of all the candidates. The HSK is only a test, and it does not serve for improving the Chinese skills of Chinese learners. The HSK should not be served as an official learning material to the students, however, this essay will explain how to appropriately combine HSK tests with learning materials to help Chinese learners master each five aspects. The HSK testing guidelines and grading scales can be used as a benchmark to teach Chinese. Learning is always a two-way interaction. In order to accomplish fluent Chinese speaking, Chinese learners should always keep in mind their purposes of studying Chinese and focus their studies in the aspects that they value the most. No matter what the purpose is, a decent volume of vocabulary and largely practicing oral Chinese is essential. This essay will also discuss different approaches that Chinese educators can take to encourage Chinese learners to practice and learn. The main intention of this essay is to help Chinese educators to better improve their teaching methodology and to illustrate these examples into their day to day teaching. There are examples from various Chinese Learning textbooks and different scenarios of oral Chinese practices, includes Official Examination Papers of HSK, published by Sinolingua from Beijing. There are detailed discussions about the five aspects, listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation, and combined with HSK testing grading scales to illustrate the teaching method. In conclusion, the teacher’s teaching methods, the systematic and scientific nature of the selected textbooks are also the key to the study Chinese.

Keywords: Chinese Proficiency Test HSK; Five different aspects; Teaching quality and effects