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245	0	0	_aOn the Learning of Chinese / _cEdited by Ference Marton; Shek Kam Tse; Wai Ming Cheung.
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBrill | Sense, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
505	0	0	_aPreliminary Material / _rFerence Marton , Shek Kam Tse and Wai Ming Cheung -- Chinese and the Learning of Chinese / _rShek Kam Tse and Wai Ming Cheung -- Chinese Pedagogy and a Pedagogy for Learning Chinese / _rPakey Pui Man Chik and Ference Marton -- Learning Tones / _rWing Wah Ki , Ference Marton and Ming Fai Pang -- Orthographic Awareness / _rHo Cheong Lam -- Learning Characters / _rShek Kam Tse , Ference Marton , Wing Wah Ki and Elizabeth Ka Yee Loh -- Learning Words / _rPakey Pui Man Chik , Allen Leung and Ference Marton -- Learning to Read and Write Better / _rShek Kam Tse , Ference Marton , Elizabeth Ka Yee Loh and Pakey Pui Man Chik -- Soaring Across the Sky Like a Heavenly Horse / _rWai Ming Cheung , Ference Marton and Shek Kam Tse -- Enhancing Creativity in Chinese Teaching / _rHow Chung Lee , Ference Marton and Shek Kam Tse -- Epilogue / _rFerence Marton -- Notes on Contributors / _rFerence Marton , Shek Kam Tse and Wai Ming Cheung.
520			_aAlthough more people speak Chinese than any other language on Earth, proficiency in Chinese is largely confined to the people who live in or adjacent to the Chinese Mainland and Taiwan, and to the ethnic Chinese inhabitants of the various “Chinatowns” in countries around the world. Despite its allure, many people find Chinese a hard language to learn, including a considerable number of children who learn it as mother tongue. The basic units of written Chinese are ideographic symbols called characters; and the meaning and pronunciation of each character is determined by the tone attached to it by the speaker. Facing the very large number of Chinese characters and words, it seems impossible for learners, regardless of their native language, to master the language other than via rote memorization. The attempt to facilitate the route to proficiency in Chinese has understandably attracted the attention of numerous psycholinguistic researchers and educators. Using the Theory of Variation as the primary learning framework, the authors of this book conducted a number of large-scale and robustly-designed studies to investigate the relationship between the learning and teaching of Chinese, mostly among native speakers However we believe that the results are applicable to the learning of Chinese as a second language. Studies into ways of understanding the phonological and orthographical acquisition of characters are reported; ways of helping learners come to terms with reading Chinese, a textual language that does not always correspond word-for word with the spoken discourse, are explained; and the implications of the evidence for Chinese curriculum and syllabus design are pointedly addressed by the contributors. The authors believe that there are effective ways to become skilled in Chinese and that learning Chinese can be pleasurable and interesting. They provide empirical evidence for educators, parents, policymakers and readers interested in Chinese language education. They also illuminate the path to the mastery of Chinese in schools and how Chinese should be taught in today’s world.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aChinese language _xAcquisition.
650		0	_aChinese language _xStudy and teaching.
700	1		_aMarton, Ference, _eeditor.
700	1		_aTse, Shek Kam, _eeditor.
700	1		_aCheung, Wai Ming, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tOn the Learning of Chinese, _dLeiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2010 _w9789460912689
830		0	_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789460912696
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