Post-Lingual Chinese Language Learning: Hanzi Pedagogy (Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese)

This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to mainstream theories of second language learning. Focusing on Chinese Hanzi, a self-sufficient meaning-making system that operates via visual shape and the logic built into its formation, it analyses æpost-lingualÆ pedagogy. The author examines this ælanguage beyond languageÆ or linguistic theories, demonstrating that Hanzi is not made up simply of arbitrary signs but is the result of a complete conceptualisation process. In doing so, she creates a conceptual framework that builds on HanziÆs humanistic spirit of language learning. This intriguing book will interest students and scholars of language education, and offers practical advice for those involved in teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language.

• | Author: Jinghe Han
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Language Arts & Disciplines
• | ISBN-10: 1137598395
• | ISBN-13: 9781137598394