RESEARCH ON CHINESE CHARACTER TEACHING IN TEACHING CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Chinese character teaching plays an important role in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Many foreign students learning Chinese are very good in listening and speaking, but their ability to read and write Chinese characters is relatively poor. Therefore, in the early stage of Chinese teaching, many experts and scholars advocate listening and speaking first. The teaching of Chinese characters has always been the concern of Chinese teachers, experts and scholars. This paper discusses the teaching of Chinese characters from two aspects. First of all, from the cognitive point of view, Chinese characters and learners’ mother tongue can be corresponding teaching. This paper takes foreign students whose mother tongue is English as an example, based on the construction of Chinese characters, the teaching of correspondence between the strokes of Chinese characters and the letters of English characters, the correspondence between the parts of Chinese characters and the roots of English characters, and the teaching of correspondence between the whole characters of Chinese characters and the words of English characters. Chinese character construction method can help foreign students who are just learning Chinese to quickly eliminate strangeness, accept Chinese characters easily, and establish confidence in learning Chinese characters. The structure of Chinese characters is not good, but the teaching effect is good.

In addition, from the perspective of culture, foreign students learning Chinese can learn more about the history and culture of Chinese characters, perceive the development process of Chinese characters, and experience the fun of learning Chinese characters. Chinese characters and culture are closely related. Chinese characters are an important carrier of recording culture. Culture mainly depends on Chinese characters to progress and develop. Therefore, it is very important to learn the culture of Chinese characters. In the process of Chinese teaching, we should choose some simple and popular Chinese characters so that foreign students can learn well, remember and understand well, so as to achieve the purpose of interpreting Chinese culture through Chinese characters.

Through the integration of Chinese character culture into literacy teaching, we can deepen students’ understanding and mastery of Chinese characters. At the same time, we can use the Chinese character construction method to teach Chinese characters, which runs through all stages of foreign students’ learning and improves the teaching effect.

Keywords: Chinese character teaching, the construction of Chinese characters, culture