METHODS OF TEACHING CHINESE CHARACTERS TO NON-CHINESE STUDENTS

Abstract

In the practice of teaching Chinese to non-Chinese students, characters make the most difficult part of Chinese teaching and learning for both teachers and students. In order to achieve good results in Chinese teaching, it is necessary to understand the characteristics of Chinese characters. Each Chinese character has a shape, and the morpheme it records has sound and meaning. The three are combined, so a Chinese character is a unity of shape, sound, and meaning. There is not a one-to-one relationship between character units and language units. The phenomenon of different words (morphemes) with the same character and different characters with the same word (morpheme) is common. This article introduces three teaching methods formulated according to the characteristics of Chinese characters.