From the discussion of the content, goal and method of the teaching of modern Chinese, the paper points out that it is necessary to have a syllabus of four independent components. The teaching content should include the common core, regional dialects and newly studied rules.The goal of teaching should be to help the students to get a good command of the basic knowledge of modern Chinese, to improve their linguistic competence and to obtain the ability of using and analyzing modern Chinese. The heuristic method o...
