If the foreigners are just begin to learn Mandarin, the teachers should divide the teaching activity into two stages, one is grammar stage and the other is the words stage. As a matter of fact, they are closely combined. In the grammar stage, the focus is the functional words teaching because we regard them as […]
When mentioning the hobbies, we often ask people around us like 你喜欢看什么书？. However, the foreigners who learn Mandarin should realize that here 看 is not the same as reading as we say. The difference lies in the emphasis. When we say 看, we mean the visual perception, emphasizing the casual reading while 读 stresses to […]
Since some Chinese words are used by all people, we can see them as the high frequency words. But overseas students who learn Mandarin should realize high frequency word is different from the basic word because it is counted by the frequency that people use. If the words are very frequently used in society, they […]
by Zhejiang Normal University, Li Liang I believe every teacher has own secret tips to make the class atmosphere easy in Mandarin language school. I’d be glad to share these stories and games with you. And all of these are test by the practice and favorite ways to learn for students. Tips A games: how to […]
As for the discrimination between situation teaching and circumstance teaching, the author thinks that there is no such serious boundary. Both of them aim to provide a studying environment for students who learn to speak Chinese. And the environment should relate to inside class and outside class. Many scholars raised their own opinions on language situation. […]
The self-development of Chinese teaching requests us to build up Chinese language program in China. Theoretically speaking, development of each language program should keep pace with the times, solve all kinds of problems in teaching practice and absorb the latest knowledge and results in this fields and related fields so that the establishment of disciplines can […]
Many students of Chinese learning program have great problem in memorizing Chinese characters. In order to help the overseas students to memorize Chinese characters firmly, our teachers have made lots of efforts. One teacher who is teaching summer program in China stretched her arms and legs and asked students what the character was. Students said, “it is ‘大’.” Teacher […]
After learning Chinese characters, students are supposed to be able to expressing with sentences. To help students learn Chinese language, this lesson will discuss some interesting and effective teaching methods. In order to help students who study in China to deepen the words understanding, expressing, explaining and memorizing, we can teach by the game guessing words by hinting. This game […]
Even you are a native Chinese and have been speaking Chinese for more than ten years, but if someone asks you to talk about the characteristics of Chinese speech sounds, I suppose that few people can really tell something. This is not strange, for we are the users of language, not the researchers. Some unprofessional […]
The synthetic method is an effective method in Chinese grammar teaching. Firstly, teachers help the students who learn Mandarin to get in touch with some specific language phenomenon to do large amount of practice. Then teachers summarize some grammar rules from these language materials. It is a summarizing process from the specific to the general. For example, […]