改革开放以来,大量词语新义尤其是旧词新义的不断涌现是新时期一个值得关注的突出的语言现象。随着中国经济的迅猛发展,全球出现学习汉语热,旧词新义教学逐渐成为对外汉语教学中的一个重要课题。本文主要阐述了“旧词新义”在对外汉语教学中的作用,并且针对外国学生的思维特点,对教学方法进行了一些探讨。 Since the reform and opening up, a large number of new meanings of words, especially the emergence of new meanings of old words, have become a prominent linguistic phenomenon worth noting in the new era. With the rapid development of China’s economy, the worldwide emergence of learning Chinese fever and the teaching of new meanings of old words have gradually become an important topic in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. This paper mainly expounds the role of “old words and new meanings ” in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and discusses some teaching methods according to the thinking characteristics of foreign students.