汉语国际教育中汉字教学的语境充实——基于《华英字典》设计特征研究的思考

The contextual enrichment in teaching Chinese characters to CFL learners:Some reflections on the design features of A Dictionary of the Chinese Language

通过对马礼逊《华英字典》历史文本及副文本细读发现,马礼逊十分重视汉字在汉语学习中的作用并通过多样化的汉字语境充实策略,帮助学习者掌握汉字的用法,较好地处理了汉字和汉语学习之间的关系,这对当今汉语国际教育中的汉字教学有积极的借鉴意义。同时,来自《华英字典》的探究也可反哺汉语言文字应用的理论研究。

Based on a close reading of Morrison’s A Dictionary of the Chinese Language and its paratext,this paper finds that Morrison attaches great importance to the role of characters in Chinese learning and deals properly with the relation between Chinese character learning and Chinese language learning through the employment of contextual enrichment strategies.This provides new insights into the promotion of Chinese character teaching.Moreover,it may shed some light on the theoretical innovations in the application of Chinese linguistics.