The Chinese vocabulary will greatly affect the reading comprehension of foreign learners when they study Chinese. Since it is related to the reading skills, expanding the vocabulary in reading becomes one of the important tasks. Generally speaking, the following ways are helpful for students who study Chinese to expand the vocabulary. Firstly, teachers can arrange the words appear in reading materials carefully so that students can learn the target words. Some of important target words can be learned as new words and teachers can explain them before reading.

However, for some of the words, teachers can only explain them briefly when they meet in the reading materials. In Chinese course in China, teachers may design carefully to help learners guess the meaning by finding all kinds of clues. The last but often used way is to explain the words separately, including the pronunciation, formation and meaning. The vocabulary learning is the kernel of reading for those who study Chinese. Therefore, the input of vocabulary should on the basis of understanding. Meanwhile, the point of practicing should be the notional words but not functional words.