ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ СТАВЛЕННЯ СТУДЕНТІВ (З НЕСІНОГРАФІЧНИХ КУЛЬТУРНИХ КІЛ) ДО КИТАЙСЬКИХ ІЄРОГЛІФІВ

Abstract

In the form of a questionnaire, investigate and study the attitudes and learning situation of learners in non-Sinographic cultural circles: 92 respondents from 23 countries, majority coming from Ukraine. The questionnaire data shows that the survey respondents generally consider learning Chinese is important. However, their problems mainly focus on wasting the resources of Chinese characters such as radicals, components, character origins and other resources for associative memory. Therefore, methods and other suggestions were made in order to show how to fully use the potential of Chinese language, especially the characters and what is hidden in their structure. The paper also found out that learning characters by the means of pinyin, emphasis on vocabulary learning and the habit of ignoring Chinese character reading and explaining prove to hinder language learning progress. This work provides explanation of anxiety related to Chinese characters and the need for Chinese character segmentation, the mentality of “illiterate” who only learns Chinese but not Chinese characters. It is revealed that good motivation without knowing the right way to learn can lead to troubles while mastering Chinese. In other words, due to peculiarities of the language, teaching and learning of Chinese language need scrutinizing. Thus, the final part of the paper provides coping strategies: recommendations on how to use associations related to the origins of Chinese characters, radical and phonetic associations, comprehensive associations and other methods to learn and memorize Chinese characters. The results of the analysis are considered and used to advise on the compilation of Ukrainian picture dictionaries or multilingual Chinese dictionaries. Paper provides ideas to revise the prefixes and entries of Chinese characters in the dictionaries mentioned above.