When Chinese language teachers teach Mandarin language to the foreign learners, teachers they should take students’ receptiveness into consideration. The society needs elite education as well as universal education. Like other languages, Chinese language may be difficult and confusing for those second language learners. Therefore, how to train learners’ interest becomes the teaching point and […]
People need to read many things every day. We should use different ways to read for various purposes. Skipping is one of the reading methodss often used when foreigners learn Mandarin. It is the reading methods to read the catalogue of books or titles of newspapers for general information. When you read one piece of […]
The latest “Chinese Heritage” magazine published the selection result of “100 most significant characters of Chinese culture”. The Chinese character “和(he, ‘harmony’)” was selected as the most Chinese character. Among the 100 characters under selection, there are characters represent the social civilization, such as “禾(he, ‘plants’)”; and characters that denote Chinese philosophy, religion and culture, such as “儒(ru, ‘Confucianism’)”; also […]
In order to increase the reality of specific Chinese testingor the students who learn Chinese in China in Chinese program in China , the following two aspects should be done: 1. List and describe communicative task items of specific Chinese in details and confirm their weight in Chinese program in China From the needs analysis we can know the every […]
Many new learners will feel that Chinese is quite difficult when they are learning Mandarin in China. Some scholars say that the purpose of teaching Chinese as second language is not only to let students who are learning Mandarin in China understand the Chinese language learning program, but the most important thing is to let them learn how to use the […]
As for students whose Chinese level is limited, especially for the students who are learning Chinese in China in intermediate or elementary level, it will be difficult for teachers to explain Chinese words or grammar. To solve this problem, teachers can make full use of the language knowledge that students have already learnt in the past Chinese language […]
It is inevitable that the students learn Chinese in China will more or less make some mistakes, especially for words choosing. Students’ language levels are varied because of different ability and learning durations. For the mistakes made by students of the primary phase, it is better to only help them correct but not explain the reasons. When […]
To practice overseas students’ ability of describing and expressing with Chinese, this lesson will help students who study in China by some methods and games related to picturing. In order to train students’ ability of listening, describing and practicing with Chinese. The first method teacher can use in Chinese language school is the game “I say you draw”. Firstly, […]
The principal point of correcting pronunciation mistake is to find the mistakes students have made. Don’t look down upon this part. It is hard to really do this without experience. There are always some Chinese teachers who are working in Mandarin language program asking me: why they could hear that the students speak wrongly, but […]
Rennes University 2—Haute Bretagne, An Xiong Although teaching Chinese as a foreign language has developed rapidly all over the world, most of Chinese textbooks choose to focus on the oral Chinese teaching. They use a method call “分散识字法”(fēn sàn shí zì fǎ)（learning the Chinese Characters in decentralization）. This method has run counter to the law […]