{"id":4901,"date":"2014-09-30T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2016-10-14T05:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T04:49:55","slug":"learning-to-write-chinese-characters-through-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/learning-to-write-chinese-characters-through-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to write Chinese characters through communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/handwritingime.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/handwritingime-599x1024.png\" alt=\"handwritingime\" width=\"300\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a>In almost every modern textbook I&#8217;ve seen on teaching methodology, and not a few research papers, the importance of communication is emphasised. This is part of the core of both communicative learning and task-based learning, and has several benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Communicating is the real goal of language learning, so it makes sense to practise in a way as close to the goal as possible.<\/p>\n<p>However, as we saw in last week&#8217;s article (<a title=\"View post Focusing on communication to learn Chinese\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/focusing-on-communication-to-learn-chinese\/\">Focusing on communication to learn Chinese<\/a>), focusing only on communication is an approach that might work well for children, but it&#8217;s definitely not the best way for adult learners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Communicative handwriting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this article, I want to talk about communicative learning and writing Chinese characters. This is an area where I&#8217;m convinced that everybody&#8217;s doing way too much studying and way too little communicating (i.e. the opposite of what I talked about last week). Proportionally speaking, how much of your character learning is communicative?<\/p>\n<p><strong>This isn&#8217;t communication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In most classrooms and courses, learning to write characters by hand is often far removed from any kind of communication. Here are a few examples of what doesn&#8217;t count as communicative:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reviewing characters using <strong>flashcards<\/strong> of any kind<\/li>\n<li>Writing characters during <strong>dictation<\/strong> in class<\/li>\n<li><strong>Copying<\/strong> a text already written in characters or Pinyin<\/li>\n<li>Creating <strong>mnemonics<\/strong> for characters you want to be able to write<\/li>\n<li>Practising <strong>calligraphy<\/strong> on paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All these are useful activities in certain contexts, but they aren&#8217;t communicative! You&#8217;re writing characters only to write characters, there is no goal of conveying meaning or information to someone else in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p>As I pointed out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/focusing-on-communication-to-learn-chinese\/\">last week&#8217;s article<\/a>, studying has its role and you do need to study a lot to learn Chinese characters, but I also think you should include communication as much as possible in your character learning. This is more fun, makes learning meaningful and a natural part of your life, not a chore you have to get through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use handwriting input on your phone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the best advice I have to offer. Even though it&#8217;s definitely quicker, don&#8217;t use a phonetic input method on your phone, use handwriting instead. This means that when you write something in Chinese, you&#8217;ll review characters at the same time. You&#8217;ll get very good at common ones and you will occasionally need to think about how to write less common characters as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you think this is too hard or takes too much time, you can set a limit of some kind. You don&#8217;t have to write all characters by hand, just do that for the first X minutes or Y characters. Then you can switch to some other input method. This ensures that you practice writing characters but avoids the problem where you stop writing altogether because it&#8217;s too annoying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Communicating with your future self<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modern people typically don&#8217;t write that much by hand, but we still do sometimes. You should start doing this in Chinese as far as it&#8217;s possible. For instance, you can write shopping lists and to-do lists in Chinese. Take notes in Chinese when you can. Of course, you can always skip characters you don&#8217;t know and just write Pinyin (or even English) if you don&#8217;t know them. Don&#8217;t be too hard on yourself. The point is to communicate with your future self successfully and that should be the main goal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is communication anyway?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I plan to write an article about communication and language learning later, but I still want to include a brief discussion here. One might think that anything related to language learning is communication because that&#8217;s ultimately what languages are about.<\/p>\n<p>This is not what the word means in a language learning context, though.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, communication means genuine exchange of information in a meaningful way. Thus, if you read a dialogue in a textbook, it&#8217;s not communication because your partner learns nothing new from what you say (it&#8217;s already in the textbook).<\/p>\n<p>In fact, many common classroom activities are not communicative! An example of a real communicative exercise in a beginner classroom might be to exchange phone numbers using the Chinese numbers you just learnt (if your partner doesn&#8217;t already know your phone number).<\/p>\n<p>Communication should also be meaningful, although this is harder to achieve and, in my opinion, of secondary importance. For instance, it&#8217;s extremely hard to communicate something of genuine interest as a beginner. You only have one phone number and I might not ever be interested in writing it down!<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, we sometimes opt for communication with simulated meaning, such as using a made-up phone number that could have been your own or answering questions about a made-up schedule to practice time words and school subjects. The point is that these exercises still have real-world relevance and could take place outside the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A minimum-effort approach to handwriting Chinese<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using communicative handwriting is not only more natural, more effective and more fun, it&#8217;s also a cornerstone of my minimum-effort approach to learning to write Chinese characters. You can read more about that here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/a-minimum-effort-approach-to-writing-chinese-characters-by-hand\/\">A minimum-effort approach to writing Chinese characters by hand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much of your character learning is done through communication? It should be a significant part, but I think this is very rare, both inside and outside classrooms. 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