An Instructional Design Of Components-based Method For Teaching Chinese Characters To Foreign Student

Even with the vigorous development on Teaching Chinese as Second Language in recent years, teaching of Chinese characters is still lagging behind. To solve the problem, the previous studies on the phenomenon was analyzed, and an instructiongal design of components-based teaching method was established.Based on the introduction of the relevant theories on the key components such as definition, disassembly, classification and features of distinctiveness, a detailed analysis on the advantages and diaadvantages of components-based teaching method was discussed. From the results, it can be seen that this method has many advantages including to reduce the students’ psychological fear of the difficulty in learning Chinese characters, to develop self-learning capability, to make it easy for memorizing and identifying Chinese characters and to reduce errors. While the disadvantages such as the incomplete ontology research, only focusing on the ability to write Chinese characters and ignoring the reading ability as well as not suitable for the beginning of Chinese, are also existed. In order to compensate for its limitations, a comprehensive method which combines the merits of strokes teaching, motivation teaching methods and pictophmetic characters teaching method was put forward.Above analysis above, a teaching scheme of Lesson Eight to the students who have no background of Chinese in textbook EXPERIENCE CHINESE CHARACTER (beginning vision) was explore, then the effect of teaching was investigated, and finally the feedback of students and limitations of the scheme was summarized, so that a a systematic, efficient teaching method was established.