Post-Lingual Chinese Language Learning : Hanzi Pedagogy

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 exa...

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Main Author Han, Jinghe (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesPalgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781137598400
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-59840-0
Physical DescriptionXIII, 131 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Contextualising Chinese language education in the Western Context
  • Chapter 2. Chinese language and Duiwai Hanyu Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language)
  • Chapter 3. The debatable role of English (L1) in Duiwai Hanyu (L2) Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language)
  • Chapter 4. Post-lingual pedagogical practice - Hanzi Method
  • Chapter 5. Meaning-making - Hanzi orthography and real world integrated learning
  • Chapter 6. Learning through the logic in Hanzi
  • Chapter 7. Hanzi method - knowledge generation, concepts / conceptualization and thoughts in Hanzi
  • Chapter 8. Further thoughts on Hanzi methods - the language, epistemology and ontology.