The Application Of Game Method In Chinese Teaching For Preschool Children In Italy

Recently,Mandarin fever throughout the world continues to warm.In Italy,elementary school,secondary school and the college all open the course of Chinese Mandarin.And most students start to learn Chinese at a younger age.This kind of younger-age trend provides both opportunities and new challenges to Chinese teaching.Scholars should pay more attention to studies on how to teach foreign students who at a younger age to learn Chinese.Children's psychological and physiological characteristics,as well as their special cognitive model determine that they are different from teenagers and adults on learning second language.The Chinese teaching in Italian kindergartens just started.the Chinese learning of preschool kids somehow.Based on the characteristics of teaching Chinese as a foreign language,combined with Italian educational ideas,it is necessary to find effective teaching methods which are suitable for Italy kids.This paper consists five chapters.Chapter one is a brief introduction,illustrating the background,purposes,methodology and the significance of the paper.The author reviews relevant literatures,sorting out the current situations in this field.Then in the second chapter,discussing the definition and classification of game teaching methods,analyzing the physiological basis and psychological mechanism of young children and studying the characteristics of young children's cognitive development and second language acquisition.Chapter three,studying the application of game method in Chinese Teaching in Italian kindergarten from four aspects: Speech,Vocabulary,Chinese Characters and Grammar.Chapter four,studying the role of game teaching method in Italian preschool education and finding its problems and solutions.Chapter five,summarizing the full text of the study.