Post-Lingual Chinese Language Learning: Hanzi Pedagogy

✍ Scribed by Dr. Jinghe Han (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 140
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to mainstream theories of second language learning. Focusing on Chinese Hanzi, a self-sufficient meaning-making system that operates via visual shape and the logic built into its formation, it analyses ‘post-lingual’ pedagogy. The author examines this ‘language beyond language’ or linguistic theories, demonstrating that Hanzi is not made up simply of arbitrary signs but is the result of a complete conceptualisation process. In doing so, she creates a conceptual framework that builds on Hanzi’s humanistic spirit of language learning. This intriguing book will interest students and scholars of language education, and offers practical advice for those involved in teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Contextualising Chinese Language Education in the Western Context....Pages 1-18
Chinese Language and Duiwai Hanyu Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language)....Pages 19-41
The Debatable Role of English (L1) in Duiwai Hanyu (L2) Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language)....Pages 43-57
Post-lingual Pedagogical Practice—Hanzi Methods....Pages 59-72
Meaning-Making—Hanzi Orthography and Real World Integrated Learning....Pages 73-88
Learning Through the Logic in Hanzi ....Pages 89-101
Hanzi Method—Knowledge Generation, Concepts/Conceptualisation and Thoughts in Hanzi ....Pages 103-116
Further Thoughts on Hanzi Methods—The Language, Epistemology and Ontology....Pages 117-127
Back Matter....Pages 129-131

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics;Language Education;Chinese