A A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON TASK DESIGN AND VOCABULARY SELECTION IN THE ELEMENTARY BUSINESS CHINESE TEXTBOOKS EXCEL IN CHINESE-BETTER CHINESE-BETTER LIFE (I & II) AND NEW SILK ROAD: ELEMENTARY RAPID BUSINESS CHINESE (I & II) BASED ON THE BCT(A) SYLLABUS
Keywords:
BCT(A); beginner-level Business Chinese textbooks; instructional task design; vocabulary selection; textbook comparisonAbstract
With the growing global influence of China’s economy and the advancement of the “Belt and Road” initiative, the demand for Business Chinese learning has surged. The Business Chinese Test (BCT-A) syllabus has become an essential guideline for teaching. Two widely used beginner-level textbooks, New Silk Road Business Chinese (Vol. I & II) and Step Up with Chinese for Business (Vol. I & II), exhibit discrepancies in task design and vocabulary selection when compared to the BCT-A syllabus. This study adopts literature review, data statistics, and comparative analysis to systematically examine the alignment between the syllabus and the two textbooks, focusing on instructional task design and vocabulary selection. Findings show that Step Up with Chinese covers 56.52% of BCT-A task types with content concentrated on business etiquette, while New Silk Road achieves a broader and more balanced coverage of 86.95%. In terms of vocabulary, the BCT-A overlap ratio is 20.68% for Step Up with Chinese and 49.07% for New Silk Road. Based on these results, this study proposes recommendations from the perspectives of textbook compilation, classroom instruction, and learner strategies to enhance the effectiveness of Business Chinese teaching and support its further development.
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