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Toward a Program of Acquiring Culture Themes by Beginning Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language

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2012, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Languages and Literatures.
Culture themes are actions that convey social values. The acquisition of culture themes goes beyond being knowledgeable about the social values underlying communication in Chinese to include the ability to conduct actions that convey social values. Pedagogical materials are responsible for not merely informing learners about the facts of social values, but cultivating the actions required to convey the social values. The results in this study of conducting interviews among beginning level students show that receiving abundant experience and training on culture themes is important in acquiring culture themes at the beginning stages of learning the Chinese language. An exploration of gamification as a strategy for introducing and evaluating culture themes in Chinese language instruction is presented, enabling non-native Chinese learners to convey social values in Chinese culture in a way that Chinese people recognize and accept as part of a communication event.
Galal Walker (Advisor)
Mari Noda (Committee Member)
Galal Walker (Committee Chair)
96 p.

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  • Chai, D. (2012). Toward a Program of Acquiring Culture Themes by Beginning Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343705588

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chai, Donglin. Toward a Program of Acquiring Culture Themes by Beginning Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language. 2012. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343705588.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chai, Donglin. "Toward a Program of Acquiring Culture Themes by Beginning Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343705588

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)