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This chapter proposes Post-lingual Pedagogy—Hanzi Methods based on the existent analyses of zili (字理), the reasoning in Hanzi formation. Post-lingual pedagogy is above/beyond language. It provides tools for learners to look into meaning-making through the following connections. The connection between Hanzi symbols and what they represent in the real world; through the connection between learners’ shared universalism of minds on logic, and the nature and attributes of the world built in Hanzi, and through an analysis of perceptions, conceptions and abstractions of thoughts that are contained in Hanzi. The theoretical framework provided in this chapter aims to examine and to be examined by the data collected from the teacher-researchers’ evidence of their Hanzi teaching.
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Han, J. (2017). Post-lingual Pedagogical Practice—Hanzi Methods. In: Post-Lingual Chinese Language Learning. Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59840-0_4
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