Post-Lingual Chinese Language Learning
Hanzi Pedagogy
Authors: Han, Jinghe
- Provides a systematic approach to teaching Hanzi (characters) to improve comprehension of monolingual English-speaking students
- Approaches the teaching and learning of Chinese characters from an empirically grounded and theoretically informed research base
- Explores the growing commitment to Chinese language education around the world beyond monolingual English-speaking students
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Jinghe Han is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Educational Research, Western Sydney University, Australia. Her research interests include post-lingual pedagogy, research literacy, and English as a Medium of Instruction.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Post-Lingual Chinese Language Learning
- Book Subtitle
- Hanzi Pedagogy
- Authors
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- Jinghe Han
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-59840-0
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-59840-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-59839-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 131
- Topics
