Title: ‘Proceeding separately and striking together’: A new approach to the teaching Chinese as a foreign language in the United States
Abstract: The teaching approach that integrates listening, speaking, reading and writing at the beginning level has been widely adopted in teaching Chinese as a foreign language in American universities. However, many American college students still either shy away from Chinese or stop shortly after they begin to learn Chinese. One important reason is that this integrated approach has not been as effective as we hoped in helping students to overcome the two major obstacles caused by the two salient characteristics of Chinese language: characters and tones. To help students to break the barriers of characters and tones so as to attract more students to learn Chinese and to enable them to go on to the higher level, we need to adopt the new approach of ‘proceeding separately and striking together,’ in which Chinese language speaking and writing are taught separately in accordance with the rules and characteristics of each at the beginning level.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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