New Approach To Learning Chinese Teaching Spoken Chinese And Character Separately

After reading the original teaching material "New approaches to learning Chinese" I find that the teaching method devised by Professor Zhang Pengpeng is tremendously efficient and practical. I felt I ought to write a paper to let others know his wonderful techniques. Similar responses can be heard at the Beijing Language University, University of Zurich, the University of Mainz in Germany, and the University of Paris, where Professor Zhang has taught his new approaches of teaching Chinese during the past few years.His approaches are grounded in 26 years of experience teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Zhang has attracted equal attention from scholars and teachers in various universities home and abroad. For several decades the spoken and written form of Chinese have been taught to beginners. So whatever is learnt in the spoken language will be followed by a corresponding written character. Obviously, in this way the characters are not chosen systematically according to their structural compositions, and the rules that govern the writing of Chinese characters are not reflected, making the teaching and learning of characters only more chaotic and difficult. Also, Chinese characters developed from ideographs and cannot be read phonetically. This means that there is no direct relationship between the form and structure of characters and their pronunciation. So the old approach of teaching both spoken Chinese and the characters at beginners' level will not help foreign learners...