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Creating Stories: On the Design of Dialogue Experience in Chinese Language Pedagogy

Zhao, Wenting
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500328309151353

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2017, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Languages and Literatures.
Dialogue, as a genre in foreign language materials, is an important element in Chinese language pedagogy. However, an examination of the design of dialogue experiences in the current Chinese materials reveals that it is often divorced from an understanding of learners’ processing and memory of them. For a pedagogy that aims at preparing students for future participation in the target culture, one major consequence is that instructors are at a loss in terms of how effective the dialogues are and how much is retained after practicing them. The thesis proposes to use the idea of story to guide the composition and exploitation of dialogues with a view to helping students form culturally appropriately stories or memories that they can readily apply to future encounters in the target culture. Story is viewed as an instrument of the mind that processes experiences according to narrative structures that contain essential components. The proposal is based on two principles: first, the more narrative components an experience satisfies, the more memorable that experience is; second, when an experience lacks a certain narrative component, the mind will automatically try to compensate by filling in speculated information. Particularly, four elements of story are discussed as the most relevant for creating culturally appropriate stories in Chinese learning, i.e., world model, scenario simulation, expectation disruption and coping strategy. Pedagogical suggestions are offered with regard to the use of these story components in the design of dialogue experience.
Xiao-Bin Jian (Advisor)
Galal Walker (Committee Member)
67 p.
Foreign Language
Chinese Language Pedagogy

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  • Zhao, W. (2017). Creating Stories: On the Design of Dialogue Experience in Chinese Language Pedagogy [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500328309151353

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zhao, Wenting. Creating Stories: On the Design of Dialogue Experience in Chinese Language Pedagogy. 2017. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500328309151353.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zhao, Wenting. "Creating Stories: On the Design of Dialogue Experience in Chinese Language Pedagogy." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500328309151353

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