The Use of Psychology in Teaching Languages and Cultures to Foreigners

Abstract

In recent years, with the growing strength of our country and the rapid growth of global influence, Chinese language education has gradually moved to the international arena, and the number of foreign friends learning Chinese has gradually increased. International Chinese language education plays an important role in China's foreign development, showing a trend of vigorous development around the world. However, due to the large cultural differences among language learners, there are also various problems in the process of teaching language and culture to foreigners. As a unique and advanced psychological behavior, language learning is a major aspect of psychology. In foreign language teaching, the conscious application of psychological ideas in foreign language teaching will help overcome learners' psychological barriers to language learning in a cross-cultural environment, help teachers build scientific and reasonable teaching methods, so as to comprehensively improve the quality of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, which plays an important role in the international promotion of Chinese. From the perspective of psychology, this paper discusses the teaching strategies of Chinese as a foreign language, and provides reference for Chinese educators.