Volume 3,Issue 7
Construction and Application of a Chinese-Spanish Bilingual Corpus for the "Understanding China" Series Courses
This study has completed the construction of a specialized Chinese-Spanish bilingual corpus tailored to the "Understanding China" series courses-a key initiative in promoting the international dissemination of Chinese culture and high-quality bilingual education targeting Spanish-speaking learners. The research team systematically collected, processed, and annotated corpus data covering five core thematic modules of the courses ("Politics and Governance," "Economy and Development," "Culture and Society," "Ecology and Environment," "Science and Technology Innovation"), with a total valid corpus size of 450,000 words. Through empirical application in textbook revision, classroom teaching, and teaching evaluation across 6 courses in 3 universities (2023-2025 academic years), the corpus has been verified to effectively address the scarcity of targeted Chinese-Spanish teaching resources, resolve terminology inconsistencies, reduce cross-cultural misunderstandings, and improve students’ mastery of China-related concepts and Spanish expression skills. This paper summarizes the corpus’s construction framework, core features, application effects, and practical experiences, aiming to provide a reference for the development of language-specific thematic corpora in similar international education fields.
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