Author: Harry Layman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557926602
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
This book is designed for students of Chinese that are interested in improving their initial vocabulary of the written Chinese language. Working with Simplified Hanzi, this book reviews over 288 words and more than 340 characters used in everyday speech. Learning Basic Chinese Characters makes an excellent companion to Chinese4Beginners, an iPad application to practice word character recognition.For every character and word, the component elements of the written character are explained, related to primary character elements for sound and meaning, and associated with other related words and characters. Story ideas, sound and meaning elements and mnemonic devices are employed to maximize learning efficiency.See the app on iTunes or visit www.Chinese4Beginners.com -- and Thanks you!
Wordz Lianxi - Learning Basic Chinese Characters - 1
Author: Harry Layman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557926602
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
This book is designed for students of Chinese that are interested in improving their initial vocabulary of the written Chinese language. Working with Simplified Hanzi, this book reviews over 288 words and more than 340 characters used in everyday speech. Learning Basic Chinese Characters makes an excellent companion to Chinese4Beginners, an iPad application to practice word character recognition.For every character and word, the component elements of the written character are explained, related to primary character elements for sound and meaning, and associated with other related words and characters. Story ideas, sound and meaning elements and mnemonic devices are employed to maximize learning efficiency.See the app on iTunes or visit www.Chinese4Beginners.com -- and Thanks you!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557926602
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
This book is designed for students of Chinese that are interested in improving their initial vocabulary of the written Chinese language. Working with Simplified Hanzi, this book reviews over 288 words and more than 340 characters used in everyday speech. Learning Basic Chinese Characters makes an excellent companion to Chinese4Beginners, an iPad application to practice word character recognition.For every character and word, the component elements of the written character are explained, related to primary character elements for sound and meaning, and associated with other related words and characters. Story ideas, sound and meaning elements and mnemonic devices are employed to maximize learning efficiency.See the app on iTunes or visit www.Chinese4Beginners.com -- and Thanks you!
Reading acquisition of chinese as a second/foreign language
Author: Linjun Zhang
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832529526
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832529526
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
15-Minute Mandarin Chinese
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744032148
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This updated language-learning e-guide, with a brand-new free audio app, helps you learn to speak Mandarin Chinese in 15-minute visual lessons themed around common situations. With clear photography and illustrations, 12 themed chapters are broken down into 15-minute daily lessons that combine vocabulary and grammar essentials about a range of themes, from socializing to doing business for the most user-friendly, accessible language guide on the market. The audio app, available for Apple (from the App Store) and Android (from Google Play), enables you to hear words and phrases spoken by native Mandarin Chinese speakers. Download the app and scan in the book's barcode. Once you've unlocked your book and downloaded the audio files, you can enter any page number to find the word or phrase you're looking for to help improve your pronunciation.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744032148
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This updated language-learning e-guide, with a brand-new free audio app, helps you learn to speak Mandarin Chinese in 15-minute visual lessons themed around common situations. With clear photography and illustrations, 12 themed chapters are broken down into 15-minute daily lessons that combine vocabulary and grammar essentials about a range of themes, from socializing to doing business for the most user-friendly, accessible language guide on the market. The audio app, available for Apple (from the App Store) and Android (from Google Play), enables you to hear words and phrases spoken by native Mandarin Chinese speakers. Download the app and scan in the book's barcode. Once you've unlocked your book and downloaded the audio files, you can enter any page number to find the word or phrase you're looking for to help improve your pronunciation.
Modern Chinese
Author: Beijing da xue
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486227559
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This thorough textbook covers phonetics, vocabulary, and a practical analytical grammar. Graded lessons offer both characters and phonetic transcriptions, reading exercises, and practice in translation and writing. The Pin yin transcription system of mainland China is employed, with a conversion table for those familiar with the earlier Yale and Wade systems.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486227559
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This thorough textbook covers phonetics, vocabulary, and a practical analytical grammar. Graded lessons offer both characters and phonetic transcriptions, reading exercises, and practice in translation and writing. The Pin yin transcription system of mainland China is employed, with a conversion table for those familiar with the earlier Yale and Wade systems.
Second Language Acquisition Research
Author: Fethi Mansouri
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443807699
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
There is a growing interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research in interdisciplinary approaches as that are by theoretical as much as practical need of understanding language learning and performance. Intellectually, second language acquisition research is now a recognised independent field of academic inquiry concerned with cognitive, psychological, social and pragmatic aspects of the phenomenon of second language development. SLA research tends to be both highly theoretical and experimental and as such lends itself well to the rigour of scientific research. It is in this context that the use of well articulated theories and concepts is increasingly seen as an essential research and ‘thinking’ tool for understanding and conducting SLA research. Processability Theory (Pienemann 1998) is one of the more prominent theories that have been applied across a number of second languages. The logic underlying processability theory is that at any stage during the developmental process, the learner can produce and comprehend only those target language linguistic forms which the current state of the language processor (i.e. the learner lantguage) can handle. It is therefore crucial to understand the architecture of the language processor and the way in which it handles second language development. The chapters included in this book will report on the various technical and theoretical aspects of experimental SLA research across a number of typologically different languages. The book includes detailed chapters outlining the key theoretical claims and methodological requirements underpiniing this kind of SLA research. Many of the subsequent chapters report Procesability Theory-related studies to the wider field of SLA research. Though the emphasis is on cross-linguistic experimental research undertaken within the parameters of Processability Theory, the book nevertheless sheds the light on the nexus between bilingualism and theory-driven second language acquisition research.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443807699
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
There is a growing interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research in interdisciplinary approaches as that are by theoretical as much as practical need of understanding language learning and performance. Intellectually, second language acquisition research is now a recognised independent field of academic inquiry concerned with cognitive, psychological, social and pragmatic aspects of the phenomenon of second language development. SLA research tends to be both highly theoretical and experimental and as such lends itself well to the rigour of scientific research. It is in this context that the use of well articulated theories and concepts is increasingly seen as an essential research and ‘thinking’ tool for understanding and conducting SLA research. Processability Theory (Pienemann 1998) is one of the more prominent theories that have been applied across a number of second languages. The logic underlying processability theory is that at any stage during the developmental process, the learner can produce and comprehend only those target language linguistic forms which the current state of the language processor (i.e. the learner lantguage) can handle. It is therefore crucial to understand the architecture of the language processor and the way in which it handles second language development. The chapters included in this book will report on the various technical and theoretical aspects of experimental SLA research across a number of typologically different languages. The book includes detailed chapters outlining the key theoretical claims and methodological requirements underpiniing this kind of SLA research. Many of the subsequent chapters report Procesability Theory-related studies to the wider field of SLA research. Though the emphasis is on cross-linguistic experimental research undertaken within the parameters of Processability Theory, the book nevertheless sheds the light on the nexus between bilingualism and theory-driven second language acquisition research.
Chinese Calligraphy Made Easy
Author: Rebecca Yue
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9781843401414
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Rebecca Yue’s unique approach to calligraphy comes from years of teaching this ancient art. Most teachers prefer to demonstrate all of the basic brushstrokes before teaching you how to form words. However in Rebecca’s experience, students soon become bored with this method and fail to progress. Whilst teaching new brushstrokes, 'Chinese Calligraphy Made Easy' allows the reader to practise them, and brushstrokes learnt previously, by writing Chinese words. From this, the reader feels a sense of achievement and satisfaction at the end of every lesson – which, in turn, stimulates them to look forward to the next exercise. As the lessons progress, the words introduced become more complicated. When there are enough words to form phrases, projects are introduced. These include painting Chinese characters onto a bonsai pot, a t-shirt, a vase and making personalised greeting cards.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9781843401414
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Rebecca Yue’s unique approach to calligraphy comes from years of teaching this ancient art. Most teachers prefer to demonstrate all of the basic brushstrokes before teaching you how to form words. However in Rebecca’s experience, students soon become bored with this method and fail to progress. Whilst teaching new brushstrokes, 'Chinese Calligraphy Made Easy' allows the reader to practise them, and brushstrokes learnt previously, by writing Chinese words. From this, the reader feels a sense of achievement and satisfaction at the end of every lesson – which, in turn, stimulates them to look forward to the next exercise. As the lessons progress, the words introduced become more complicated. When there are enough words to form phrases, projects are introduced. These include painting Chinese characters onto a bonsai pot, a t-shirt, a vase and making personalised greeting cards.
The Power of Words
Author: Glen Peterson
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book is a social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China from 1949 until 1994. It aims to show how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education and schools they were offered. Rather than focusing narrowly on educational issues alone, Peterson examines the larger significance of P.R.C. literacy efforts by situating the literacy movement within the broad context of major themes and issues in the social and political history of post-1949 China. Following the recent trend toward regional and local history, this book focuses on the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically awkward southeastern coastal province of Guangdong. As well, Peterson conducted interviews with local officials and teachers in several Guangdong counties in 1988 and 1989.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book is a social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China from 1949 until 1994. It aims to show how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education and schools they were offered. Rather than focusing narrowly on educational issues alone, Peterson examines the larger significance of P.R.C. literacy efforts by situating the literacy movement within the broad context of major themes and issues in the social and political history of post-1949 China. Following the recent trend toward regional and local history, this book focuses on the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically awkward southeastern coastal province of Guangdong. As well, Peterson conducted interviews with local officials and teachers in several Guangdong counties in 1988 and 1989.
Cultural Foundations of Learning
Author: Jin Li
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107376831
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims to cultivate the mind to understand the world, whereas the latter prioritizes the self to be perfected morally and socially. Tracing the cultural origins of the two large intellectual traditions, Li details how each model manifests itself in the psychology of the learning process, learning affect, regard of one's learning peers, expression of what one knows and parents' guiding efforts. Despite today's accelerated cultural exchange, these learning models do not diminish but endure.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107376831
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims to cultivate the mind to understand the world, whereas the latter prioritizes the self to be perfected morally and socially. Tracing the cultural origins of the two large intellectual traditions, Li details how each model manifests itself in the psychology of the learning process, learning affect, regard of one's learning peers, expression of what one knows and parents' guiding efforts. Despite today's accelerated cultural exchange, these learning models do not diminish but endure.
The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies
Author: Zhengdao Ye
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811609241
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
This new major reference work provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic phenomena in a variety of Sinitic languages in a global context, highlighting the dynamic interaction between these languages and English. This “living reference work” offers a window into the linguistic sphere in China and beyond, and showcases the latest research into diverse and evolving linguistic phenomena that have resulted from intensified interactions between the Sinophone world and other lingua-spheres. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The chapters in Section I (New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistic Research) present fast-growing research areas in Chinese linguistics, particularly those undertaken by scholars based in China. Section II (Interactions of Sinitic Languages) focuses on language-contact situations inside and outside China. The chapters in Section III (Meaning, Culture, Translation) explore the meanings of key cultural concepts, and how ideas move between Chinese and English through translation across various genres. Section IV (New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) covers new ideas and practices relating to teaching the Chinese language and culture. The final section, Section V (Transference from Chinese to English), explores dynamic interactions between varieties of Chinese and varieties of English, as they play out in multilingual sites and settings
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811609241
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
This new major reference work provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic phenomena in a variety of Sinitic languages in a global context, highlighting the dynamic interaction between these languages and English. This “living reference work” offers a window into the linguistic sphere in China and beyond, and showcases the latest research into diverse and evolving linguistic phenomena that have resulted from intensified interactions between the Sinophone world and other lingua-spheres. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The chapters in Section I (New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistic Research) present fast-growing research areas in Chinese linguistics, particularly those undertaken by scholars based in China. Section II (Interactions of Sinitic Languages) focuses on language-contact situations inside and outside China. The chapters in Section III (Meaning, Culture, Translation) explore the meanings of key cultural concepts, and how ideas move between Chinese and English through translation across various genres. Section IV (New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) covers new ideas and practices relating to teaching the Chinese language and culture. The final section, Section V (Transference from Chinese to English), explores dynamic interactions between varieties of Chinese and varieties of English, as they play out in multilingual sites and settings
Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies, Volume 19, Number 1
Author: Dave Johnson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532636792
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
THE JOURNAL SEEKS TO PROVIDE A FORUM: To encourage serious theological thinking and articulation by Pentecostals/Charismatics in Asia; to promote interaction among Asian Pentecostals/Charismatics and dialogue with other Christian traditions; to stimulate creative contextualization of the Christian faith; and to provide a means for Pentecostals/Charismatics to share their theological reflections.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532636792
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
THE JOURNAL SEEKS TO PROVIDE A FORUM: To encourage serious theological thinking and articulation by Pentecostals/Charismatics in Asia; to promote interaction among Asian Pentecostals/Charismatics and dialogue with other Christian traditions; to stimulate creative contextualization of the Christian faith; and to provide a means for Pentecostals/Charismatics to share their theological reflections.