CHINESE LANGUAGE FOR A CHILDREN’S AUDIENCE: TEACHING AND PECULIARITIES OF ACQUISITION

Olha V. Yastrubska

Email: olha.v.yastrubska@lpnu.ua

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0084-3419

Lecturer

Lviv Polytechnic National University

Mykhailo Ya. Yastrubskyy

Email: mykhailo.y.yastrubskyi@lpnu.ua

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8032-4501

Doctor of Economical Sciences

Lviv Polytechnic National University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/StudLing2025.26.157-174

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ABSTRACT

Ukraine maintains close economic ties with China, and therefore needs a deep understanding of the Chinese mentality. This can be achieved by learning the language and getting to know the culture and traditions of China. Because of this, the question of developing an effective method of teaching the Chinese arises. Since the emphasis is on the younger generation, the article proposes a model of learning Chinese by a children’s audience, and also takes into account the peculiarities of Chinese acquisition by students. In a logical sequence, the essence of the approach to the organization of the educational process, the procedure for presenting the material, the well-founded expediency of observing the fundamental factors that ensure successful assimilation of the material are revealed. Based on the results of the study of literary sources, the authors proposed a combination of approaches to effective teaching of the Chinese language, the application of which allows the expected results to be obtained according to the set goals. It is suggested that you use specialized open-access web services that enable you to prepare presentation material on language topics.

Considerable attention is paid to the rules of writing hieroglyphs. The authors proposed a method of learning the rules of Chinese writing for Ukrainian students.

The generalizing result of considering approaches to learning Chinese for a children’s audience gave  a structural and logical model of building a Chinese lesson.

Key words: teaching features, Chinese language, student learning, effective teaching, hieroglyphs.

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