Explanations
of Difficult Points in Learning Chinese Language as a Foreign Language is a reference book for foreigners learning Chinese with beginner-level
or intermediate-level Chinese proficiency; it is also suitable for
international Chinese language teachers and other native Chinese to help
foreigners study Chinese.
The book collects more than 200 issues frequently encountered in
Chinese teaching practice, which are of great interest to students. These
issues are arranged in the order of vocabulary, grammar, phonetics and
characters, focusing on distinguishing right from wrong, and distinguishing the
similarities and differences. The language is easy to understand, aiming to let
users not only know what it is, but also why it is.
To facilitate students to express,
understand, and memorize, some entries use diagrams, tables, and formulas, etc.
Most parts of the book are accompanied by exercises and provide answers for
easy checking.
Dr. Wu Zhongwei,
Vice President and Professor of International Cultural Exchange School, Fudan
University, is interested in modern Chinese grammar, TCFL and the compilation
of textbooks. His works include more than 40 papers on Chinese grammar,
teaching, research and textbook compilation of Chinese as a foreign language in Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, Teaching Chinese in the World, Chinese Language Learning, and monographs,
such as A Thematic Study of Modern Chinese Sentences, Approaches in Teaching Grammar—The Theory
and Practice of Grammar Teaching. He is now a member of the International
Society for Chinese Language Teaching and a consultant of Chinese textbooks
compilation committee for secondary schools (2011 edition), Ministry of
Education, Singapore.
This book includes more than 200 issues
frequently encountered in Chinese teaching practice, which are of great
interest to students. The language is easy to understand, and diagrams, tables, and formulas are used for
understanding, which help solve problems in teachers’ teaching and students’ learning
process.
2. Scientificity
The entries in
this book are arranged in the order of
vocabulary, grammar, phonetics and characters, and the grammar part is arranged
in the order of morphology, syntax, and discourse expression, with
comprehensive content and reasonable arrangement. At the same time, each entry first
gives the “key points prompt”, a rhetorical question, or a wrong sentence, to
make users think and verify, thus improving their self-learning abilities.
3. Operability
Most entries are
followed by exercises to help users consolidate what they learned, thus having
much maneuverability.
For international Chinese language teachers, undergraduates and graduates majoring in international Chinese language education, beginner-level/intermediate-level students of Chinese.