Author(s)

Jianhua Yu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Science and Humanities, Shandong Transport Vocational College, Weifang, Shandong, 261041, China

Corresponding Author

Jianhua Yu

ABSTRACT

This article addresses the issue of learners lacking effective communication skills development paths in teaching Chinese as a foreign language oral English. Based on the Production-Oriented Approach (POA) theory, a set of courses has been designed. The goal is to enhance learners' oral expression and interactive abilities in real contexts. The course solves the problems of lack of practice and incomplete evaluation in traditional teaching by setting output tasks, selecting real-life content, and establishing a diversified evaluation mechanism. This experiment compared the oral expression accuracy and communicative fluency of two experimental classes (based on POA teaching) and two control classes (normal teaching) within one semester (17 weeks). The experimental results show that in teaching practice, learners based on POA teaching have improved their oral expression accuracy by 20% and communication fluency by 12% compared to learners in normal teaching, verifying the significant effect of the course in improving learners' actual communication skills.

KEYWORDS

Production-Oriented Approach, Chinese Language Teaching, Oral Communication Skills, Chinese Language Learning, Curriculum Design

CITE THIS PAPER

Jianhua Yu, Curriculum Design for Developing Oral Communication Skills in Chinese as a Foreign Language Based on POA Theory. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2024) Vol. 7: 102-110. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2024.070716.

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