A Comparative Study between Word-based and Character-based Mandarin Textbook based on Practical Audio-visual Chinese volume I-IV and M?thode de chinois I-II
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Liu, Yun-Ching
Abstract
This thesis aims to discuss the orientation of six Chinese learning materials, which consist of Practical Audio-visual Chinese volume I-IV and Méthode de chinois I-II. Since Jianzhong Ma first described the Chinese grammar with the frame of Latin grammar in 馬氏文通, researchers started to take words (詞) as a fundamental unit in Chinese grammar. They did this by analyzing the morphemes, words, phrases, sentences, etc along with the relationship between each of them. Word-based Theory became the mainstream in Chinese grammar research. This influenced the design of Chinese learning materials, which emphasize the meanings of words and class of the words. Character-based Theory was raised by Tongqiang Xu in 1991. This theory considering Chinese character comprises the shape, phonetic, and semantic, regarding characters as an elementary unit. Character-based Teaching Method divides the class structure into written language class and oral language class. The former is based on character, and the latter is based on sentence. This research determined the level of the materials according to the six criteria established by The Common European Framework (CEFR). The Practical Audio-visual Chinese volume I-II correspond to the Méthode de chinois I, both of which meet level A2. The Practical Audio-visual Chinese volume III-IV correspond to the Méthode de chinois II, both of which meet to level B1. This research analyzed the framework, texts, vocabularies, exercises of these six learning materials, discussing the applied practice of the Word-based Theory and the Character-based Theory. To present the concrete evidence of the research, we display the sentences and characters composed by French learners from National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO). The result of this research is that Practical Audio-visual Chinese volume I-IV are oriented to the Word-based Theory and the Méthode de chinois I-II oriented from the Character-based Theory. The Word-based Teaching Theory corresponds more to modern Chinese with more disyllabic words than monosyllable words. Regardless the Character-based Teaching Theory has advantages that should be accepted by the Word-based Teaching Theory. We expect the Word-based Teaching Theory will be improved as we move into the future.
Subjects
Character-based Theory
Character-based Teaching Theory
Word-based Theory
Word-based Teaching Theory
Practical Audio-visual Chinese
M?thode de chinois
Type
thesis
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