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Textbooks play a crucial role in teaching activities, and this holds true for teaching Chinese as a foreign language as well. Faced with the rapid development of Chinese language teaching, overseas Chinese textbooks are also constantly innovating and evolving. Most Chinese language teachers choose Chinese textbooks published in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other regions. However, Singaporean Chinese textbooks have gained a place in overseas Chinese teaching through a series of reforms and developments. This paper mainly analyzes the Singaporean " Chinese language B" textbook from four aspects: conceptual framework, structural examples, themes and genres, and language elements. The paper highlights the strengths of the textbook in terms of its content and functions while also pointing out some shortcomings, such as the lack of organization in the textbook's composition, unclear Chinese character tables, insufficient vocabulary that does not match the exercises, and inadequate teaching content on Chinese culture. To further validate the characteristics and advantages/disadvantages of the textbook, a practical questionnaire survey was conducted among teachers and students at the author's school, and the survey data was analyzed. Finally, combining the "five principles" of Chinese language textbook selection, namely targeting, practicality, scientificity, interestingness, and systematicity, along with the results of the textbook analysis, the paper provides the following suggestions for textbook writing: increase the scientific nature of the themes, emphasize the interesting teaching of Chinese culture, and plan systematically for the arrangement and selection of vocabulary and new words. At a macro level, there are several issues in the writing of overseas Chinese textbooks, such as the lack of unified teaching and textbook writing guidelines, lack of targeting and practicality in the texts, outdated concepts, and inadequate development of supplementary texts. In the face of such a situation, teachers can adopt a combination of textbooks and adapt the content according to local conditions to enhance Chinese language teaching for foreign learners. |
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