The study of “interactive between student method” for teaching Chinese vocabularies – for intermediate level students

• Main Authors: Hsiu-Ling Tung, 董秀琳
• Other Authors: Cheng-Zong Cui
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43673262393814865055

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 中國文學系碩士班 === 102 === More and more international students study Mandarin Chinese as their second language. This is the reason why there is more attention about Mandarin Chinese language teaching now. It was believed that grammars are the first priority for leaning a second language. However, passed experiences showed that vocabularies are more important than grammars. Vocabularies can help communication, but grammars don’t. Single vocabulary could be a complete or independent statement, but grammars don’t if no any vocabulary used. This is the reason why the studies of vocabulary teaching becomes an important topic in Mandarin Chinese teaching. Based on the theories of both word-based-teaching and vocabulary-based-teaching, the author of this article is trying to propose a new and effective vocabulary-bases-teaching practice. We call it “Interactive Between Student Method”. This new method helps students in their capabilities of vocabulary number, and application of the vocabularies. This improvements can be observed in listening, speaking, reading, and writing areas. The factors for a successful vocabulary-based-teaching are reviewed in 1st part of this article. The theories, rationales, contexts and practices for vocabulary-based-teaching are discussed the 2nd and 3rd parts in this article. The strategies for Mandarin Chinese teaching are described in the 4th part. The design, practice, analyze, results and feedbacks from the students for “Interactive Between Student Method” are reviewed in the 5th part of this article. Finally, we have an overall discussion of this new practice. This including the benefit and limitation of new practice. Hopefully this new practice can provide ideas to all Mandarin Chinese teachers. We also hope all students can get benefits from this new practice.