The purpose of this thesis is to study teaching methods for Chinese Measure Words (CMW),to students in Sweden, who have Swedish as mother tongue. The study also looks at whatchallenges the teachers have in this area, and how the teachers are solving those challenges.A qualitative interview study is performed with two elementary school teachers, and twoupper secondary school teachers, who all are teaching Chinese as a modern language tostudents in Sweden, who have Swedish as mother tongue. The result shows that five differentmethods are used to teach CMW. The result also shows that the most used teaching strategyis to use the common Chinese measure word "个", which can be used together with a largenumber of substantives. Furthermore, the results are showing that the teachers have thefollowing challenges when teaching CMW: Challenge to motivate the students to learnCMW, Challenge with teaching CMW used for abstract concepts, Challenge to make thestudent remember the large amount of CMW, and Challenge to find teaching references forCMW. The results also show what strategies the teachers are using to handle thesechallenges: Be tolerant when using CMW, Introducing the CMW "个" and Use of cognitivestrategies in the teaching.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:du-35510 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Chen Blixt, Gesi |
| Publisher | Högskolan Dalarna, Pedagogiskt arbete |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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