Abstract: In teaching Chinese as a foreign language, the course of the new Chinese word teaching is a new one, which introduces specially the new change in Chinese vocabulary. This essay, combined with the questionnaire on the understanding of new Chinese words and terms for overseas students, and from the viewpoint of the course object, teaching contents and teaching methods, makes a probe into the course construction.

Key words: teaching Chinese as a foreign language, course construction, questionnaire, word teaching
, new Chinese words and terms