INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL OF THE CHINESE WRITING SYSTEM ARE PRESENTED TO TEACH THE STUDENTS (1) HOW CHARACTERS ARE PUT TOGETHER, (2) HOW TO TELL ONE CHARACTER FROM ANOTHER, AND (3) HOW TO ANALYZE NEW CHARACTERS INTO APPROPRIATE CONSTITUENTS FOR PURPOSES OF DICTIONARY SEARCH. THE MATERIALS ARE BASED ON AN IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT…

Report on an experiment at the University of Maryland. (DD)

Describes the results of an analysis of Chinese characters carried out at the National Bureau of Standards and indicates how it might be applied in the Chinese or Japanese language classroom. Paper presented to the Chinese Language Teachers Association, MLA Convention, Denver, Colorado, December 1969. (FWB)

THE THIRD IN A SERIES OF TEXTS PREPARED AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, THIS ADVANCED TEXT PRESUPPOSES MASTERY OF "BEGINNING CHINESE,""BEGINNING CHINESE READER," AND LESSONS 1 TO 6 OF "INTERMEDIATE CHINESE READER." A COMPANION VOLUME TO THIS ONE, "CHARACTER TEXT FOR ADVANCED CHINESE," PROVIDES READING PRACTICE AND…

THIS CHARACTER VERSION OF "ADVANCED CHINESE" CAN BE STUDIED FOR READING PURPOSES AT THE SAME TIME THAT THE TRANSCRIPTION VERSION IS STUDIED FOR SPEAKING PURPOSES. THERE ARE 904 NEW CHARACTERS INTRODUCED HERE AMONG THE 150,000 CHARACTERS OF RUNNING TEXT. IT IS ASSUMED THAT THE STUDENT HAS MASTERED THE BEGINNING AND ADVANCED CHINESE TEXTS…

Discusses the forces responsible for the high level of articulacy in the People's Republic of China, and describes a set of texts for teaching Chinese as a second language compiled by the Peking Language Institute. (CLK)

Advocates a curriculum in which students are taught to use standard "k'ai" forms passively in reading, while learning to use cursive forms actively in writing. (FWB)

Since a reading knowledge of Japanese is an indispensable research tool for advanced work in Chinese studies, the student of Chinese is faced with the task of "developing a facility in two of the most difficult written languages of the world." With the goal of making this task as easy as possible, a course has been developed at Cornell University…

This workbook, intended for use in a bilingual education setting, is designed to accompany the Level Two reader of the same series. Each page presents the Chinese characters in clear, large, pen-and-ink drawings, and provides spaces in which to copy and practice them. (AMH)

This booklet was designed for use with the textbook "Beginning Chinese," by John De Francis. It contains 23 charts, each illustrating a number of characters. The strokes of each character are numbered to indicate sequence, and small arrows indicate the direction of each stroke. (PMP)

This second year volume of a 3-year course in Chinese includes a textbook, vocabulary, and character lists. A student workbook has also been designed (see FL 002 777 ). The text provided dialogues and practice in vocabulary, translation, questions, writing, and language patterns. Ideas for homework are also included. The book is divided into…

This first volume of a 3-year course in Chinese includes a textbook, vocabulary, and character lists. A workbook has been designed for the text (see FL 002 773). Each lesson is divided into sections involving such learning devices as pronunciation drills, pantomime, questions and answers, pattern practice, stories vocabulary, dictation, dialogues,…

The goals and approaches of Chinese curricula in large institutions vary from the preparation of students to do research in ancient government documents to the insistence on a mastery of spoken Mandarin adequate for functioning in a modern Chinese society. No institution does it all, but the limited program in a small college, free from the…