Rongpei Long, Hongyan Zhang, Na Xu

Rongpei Long

Novermber 20, 2025

Chinese language teaching in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Structural bottleneck, Pathways.

As an important branch of Chinese for Specific Purposes (CSP), the research on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is still in its early stages and presents fragmented characteristics. Existing research mostly focuses on textbook and vocabulary analysis, lacking systematic exploration of core elements such as standard construction, teacher competence, and curriculum system. There are significant deficiencies in both theoretical depth and practical innovation. This study proposes for the first time a "six-dimensional structural bottleneck model" for teaching Chinese in traditional Chinese medicine, revealing the adverse effects of the interactive mechanisms of missing standards, insufficient textbooks, weak teaching staff, fragmented teaching, cultural disconnection, and technological lag on Chinese language teaching in traditional Chinese medicine. On this basis, it is necessary to draw on the "dialectical treatment" thinking of traditional Chinese medicine, and construct an integrated solution, including curriculum standard design, dynamic corpus development, and teacher training certification system optimization, in order to provide reference for the theoretical construction and paradigm transformation of Chinese language teaching in traditional Chinese medicine.

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