Issues in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

對外華語的若干議題

鄧守信(Shou-hsin Teng)

《臺大華語文學習與科技》 創刊號 (2021/12) Pp. 1-12

https://doi.org/10.30050/CLLT.202112_(1).0001

摘要

In this paper, we look at some major issues relating to the academic discipline of teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language (L2 Chinese). Some issues concern Taiwan locally while others apply globally. These issues indicate where the discipline has not reached adequate rigor and needs to be further addressed and resolved in the field. Of the three components of L2 Chinese, viz. linguistics, psycholinguistics, and education, the last-listed, generally referred to as pedagogy, is the field least developed in Taiwan, or actually globally. Considerations of the name in Chinese of the field of L2 Chinese will be extensively probed next, though no easy and tidy solution can be conveniently resolved. The status of the Chinese script both linguistically and applied-linguistically has aroused much discussion in the field lately, and it will be suggested that it is a moot question linguistically, and, in its pedagogy, it is merely one of the components of L2 Chinese. The issue of Chinese generally conceived of as being a difficult language will be in this paper reexamined. Lastly, the basic properties of Hanyu Pinyin will be presented semiotically here.

關鍵字

L2 Chinese ； L2 Chinese as a discipline ； Chinese script ； difficult language ； pinyin

並列摘要

在本文中，我們著眼於與作為第二語言／外語（對外漢語）教學的學科相關的一些重要議題。有些議題與臺灣本地有關，而另一些則關係於全球。這些問題表明該學科還沒有達到足夠的嚴謹性，需要再進一步探討和解決。對外漢語的三個組成部分，即語言學、心理語言學和教育。對外漢語教學法是臺灣乃至全球發展得最不令我們滿意的領域。本文亦將廣泛探討對外漢語領域的中文名稱問題，但沒有一個簡單而完整的解決方案。漢字在語言學和應用語言學上的地位近來在我們領域引起了很多討論，有人認為它在語言學上是一個有爭議的問題，在其教學法上，它只是二語漢語的組成部分之一。漢語被普遍認為是一門難學的語言的問題將在本文中重新審視。最後，這裡將從符號學上探討漢語拼音的基本屬性。

並列關鍵字

對外漢語 ； 二語漢語 ； 二語教學作為一門學科 ； 漢字 ； 語言難度 ； 拼音

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