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Under the overwhelming stream of Chinese learning mania, many foreigners embark on Chinese learning. However, language learning is not only robotic and systematic characters learning. Instead, the spirit of language learning is to experience language itself- profound meaning of culture. Students who are not so interested in culture learning will need to experience the essence of culture while learning language. Chinese characters are all evolved with different stories and histories, let alone phrases. Metaphors behind phrases are beyond our imagination. What’s more, sport is a terrific material happened in our daily life. Hence, to explore the origin of the culture, we set sport phrase as research topic. Topic to research related background is based on corpus collection, statistics classification, literature review and classification, questionnaire survey and teaching methodology design. Aside from theoretical literature, sport slogans, context, forum in newspaper, magazine, news is covered in research corpus. There are four main purposes to be researched. First, classification of sport phrase used in newspaper, magazine and Internet; secondly, cultural meaning in sport phrases and terms; third, analyze the essentiality of Chinese teaching in sport phrases and terms by the result of questionnaire survey. Fourth, design one systematic teaching plan to combine the essentiality and availability of cultures in sport terms and vocabulary teaching in Chinese learning. As research indicated, cultures in sport terms are correspondent with military and war. Tracing back to ancient era, physical education is one classical case to train soldiers. This example exists both in the history of Western culture and Oriental culture. Also, it is what we make our stand on this research: “Sport contest is war” Sport terms research with its value and meaning plays a key role in Chinese teaching and Chinese culture recognition which not only accumulate learners’ essence of cultural recognition but also build a new mile stone in cross culture language teaching.
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