Chinese Character Parts For Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language Research

Teaching of chinese characters is one of the major differences between TCSL(Teaching Chinese as a Second Language)and teaching other languages as second languages,it's also an important link and a predominantly difficult point in a chain of TCSL.For dozens of years(especially in the recent 20 years),more and more researches and discussion on teaching of chinese characters are made in the field of TCSL,at home and abroad,filling the continuously developing enterprise of TCSL with fresh vitality.Component as an important unit of character structure,draws major attention to research and teaching of characters.Although a great number of valuable researches on this matter have been done by experts and learners,there are still some problems left unclear,such as the demarcation between components,the use of which in the practice of TCSL also lacks uniform standard, making troubles for teachers and students.The author attempts to observe,from a practical angle,the 2864 characters (excluding supplementary characters) in order to work out a table of components suitable for teaching,and propose some concrete operational suggestions.This thesis is composed of three chapters.Chapter 1 A survey of the researches on components.This chapter briefly introduces the development of radicals and components,and compares the two.Two bases of component division are summarized here:division by shape and division by meaning.This chapter also discusses in brief the researches on components from three aspects as noumenal researches on components,researches on the rules of components learning and the researches on teaching methods of components,on the basis of the arrangement of securable representative researches on components.Chapter 2 Discription and division of the component system in the outline of the grades of characters.Two component systems are discribed:the system of"ideograph + ideograghic component"and the system of phonetic component.This chapter clarifies the detailed rules of determining components that serve TCSL,largely from the cognitive view.And such two appendixes as table of"ideograph + ideograghic component"and table of phonetic components are worked out through the analysis,statistics, generalization and the arrangement of the 2864 characters.Furthermore,some problems reflected in the two appendixes are figured in forms,and tentative conclusion is drew.Chapter 3 The application of components in TCSL.According to the rules clarified in chapter 2,on the basis of securable research outcome,and combining with teaching practice,this chapter sets forth respectively the application of ideograghic component,phonetic components and shapes of components in teaching practice.