Teaching method holds the key in Chinese learning
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Why is the Chinese language giving the world such a hard time? Hao Ping, director of Beijing Foreign Languages University, spoke at the First World Chinese Conference in Beijing, claiming that Chinese learning and teaching methods have relied upon European language acquisition theory, which is completely inappropriate as the two language families are radically different.
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Comment by Sandy McLeod 14 May 2007 at 10:19 pm
This is exactly right. There is one person who has been using a new teaching method which breaks down Chinese and systematizes the teaching process; Professor Zhang Pengpeng. You can read more about his New Approach here: http://chinaaus.blogspot.com
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