DOI: 10.18503/2658-3186-2022-6-3-06-13
Abstract. The article focuses on the difficulties of teaching the Chinese language at the beginners’s level and ways of overcoming them. The analysis of Russian and authentic learning materials points to the necessity of a more individualized systemic approach to acquisition of phonetic, grammar, lexical and writing skills in Chinese. Our practice of teaching Chinese proves lack of attention to the peculiarities of Chinese phonetics, language tone, grammar structures and hieroglyphic writing, the disregard of which can lead to different comprehension problems in cross-cultural communication. The relevance of the research is determined by the necessity of working out methods and techniques, which allow to overcome linguistic interference in the process of teaching Chinese at the beginners’s level. The object of the research is the process of the formation of phonetic, grammar, lexical and writing skills in Chinese in Russian university nonlinguistic students. During the research such methods as observation, comparison, description, analogy and classification were used. As a result a set of exercises, adapted to the specific learning materials, allowing to reduce the native language influence on the process of learning Chinese, was developed. Besides, the basic ways of drilling tones, training pinyin system and hieroglyphic writing were supplemented. The article also presents schemes and illustrations that can be used with modification to the teacher’s needs for training previously mentioned language aspects. The practical relevance of this study is to familiarize teachers with the main difficulties of teaching Chinese and to introduce effective techniques and exercises, which can facilitate this process.
Keywords: the Chinese language, teaching, linguistic interference, pinyin system, tone.
Authors:
Roman S. Smolnikov, Master’s Degree Student of Institute for the Humanities, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University; Magnitogorsk, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Lyubov V. Pavlova, Doctor of Science in Pedagogy, professor at the Linguistics and Translation Department, Institute for the Humanities, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University; Magnitogorsk, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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For citation
Smolnikov R. S., Pavlova L. V. Difficulties of Teaching the Chinese Language to the Students of a Non-linguistic University, Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2022, vol. 6, no. 2, pp.6-13.