RESEARCH ON CHINESE CULTURE TEACHING IN CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE AT NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA, NIGERIA尼日利亚纳姆迪•阿齐克韦大学孔子学院的汉语文化教学研究

Abstract

Culture affects language learning, influencing their usage and providing context. It is an important part of language teaching content. Without certain cultural factors, language understanding and language use is impossible. In the teaching of Chinese language, the importance of Chinese culture has been widely recognized. However, how to properly integrate culture teaching with language teaching is still a challenge. Chinese learners studying at Confucius Institute in Nigeria are very interested in Chinese culture, but the existing culture teaching is imperfect, and the culture contents taught by the teachers are never enough to meet their learning needs and curiosity about the Chinese culture. How to improve culture teaching in Nigerian Confucius Institutes from the perspective of the students is a topic worthy of research and study. In this research Nigerian Chinese learners are being used as the survey object, and based on reading lots of previous studies, in combination with questionnaires, this thesis is aimed at exploring the interest, understanding and demand of Chinese culture teaching in Nigerian Chinese learners. The author designed a questionnaire on the questionnaire star website and distributed it through the WhatsApp and WeChat software. A total of 127 copies were collected, and they were all valid questionnaires. After the questionnaires were collected, the data were sorted and analyzed using Microsoft Excel software. The conclusions obtained in this study are as follows: Nigerian Chinese learners love the Chinese language and are very interested in its culture, but they do not have a deep understanding of it, and the reason for this includes: at the Nigerian Confucius institute the existing culture teaching system is imperfect and cannot provide learners with a systematic and contextual culture teaching; lack of professional Culture teachers; lack of specialized teaching materials and lack of an ideal teaching environment. Based on the results obtained from this research work, this paper puts forward relevant Chinese culture teaching suggestions, in order to improve the Chinese culture teaching in Nigeria and deepen the students understanding of the Chinese language.