Abstract:

Looking at the recent data of the Chinese economy growth and the amount of Chinese companies and tourism, we can see the big grow of Chinese and its influences. That is the reason why learning Mandarin Chinese is rapidly developing nowadays and it becomes one of the most popular languages in the world. Due to the expanding of Chinese and users’ demand in over the world, teaching Chinese as foreign language is a very necessary mission in Chinese Language Studies. In the past few decades, there are a lot of traditional studies and researches how to teach Chinese as foreign language in around the world, especially speaking English areas. The aim of this paper is to critically analyse a few new methodologies of learning and teaching Chinese recently, to generate those researches’ result to propose a new approach of teaching Chinese as foreign language. This approach, called “Active Mobile Chinese”, is illustrated by using mobile learning method to create a new learning environment for Chinese learners. With this new idea, we can bring the Chinese language to learners anywhere and anytime. Due to the flexibility of mobile learning style, we would propose the content of this method is more on vocabulary: common words and expressions. This seems to be very active because the languages are very common and can be used in daily lives of the society. Our new approach focuses on using the sense of language that learners can easily absorb how to use Chinese with very common words, characters and even expressions. With this language sense, people can slowly grasp and understand Chinese grammar rules. We can do the adjustment for every culture based on this core approach.

Keywords:

Active Mobile Chinese, Mobile Learning Style, Chinese for Foreigner, Learning Chinese, Teaching Chinese as a foreign language.