Symbol

Developmental attributes

Gender

Boy

Group activities, pay more attention to the sense of participation and logical analysis and expression, Divergent and innovative thinking.

Girl

Team spirit, pay more attention to the common progress of the collective, hope to help each other progress. Like to complete the task more completely according to the teacher's requirements.

Gender neutral trends

Piaget

Starts from sensorimotor intelligence, proportional thinking, concrete operational thinking, and formal operational thinking. Each stage is correlated with an age period of childhood, but only approximately.

the ability to accept new knowledge, and the speed of acceptance depends on age. Younger students are more receptive and forgetful. Older students accept slowly and memorize deeply.

Vygotsky

culture is significant in learning, language is the root of culture, and individuals learn and develop within their roles in the community. Most of time, students uses different signs and languages or sounds to momoerize the symbol.

nine to ten years old

Interest

Attention Span

twenty to thirty minutes without changing in an activity

Relevance

Peer Group

Need more practice in life

need to help each other deepen their understanding of what they have learned through cooperation

an idea, another object, a person, or a place. symbol with different characters affect different meanings and represent different units.

Cross-curricular ties

Mathematic:Transformation of digital relations eg: +,-,*,/。

Language Arts:The expression of words eg: good=好=Хорошо

Music:Characteristics of different sounds,eg:♩♪♫♬

Physical Science:An abstract sign or mark of the relationship between things

Health:Expression of health condition

Symbols in Chinese Speech and writing

Radicals and phonetic letters

Phonetic letters in Spoken words

Possible Misconception:

Undergeneralization: In Chinese, many Chinese characters have the same pronunciation, but their writing style and radical or meaning are completely different,

Overgeneralization:All words with a written pattern in Chinese all comes from Arabic

Assessment

Pre-assess:

Group the students and ask them to spell each other and mark each other's stress parts

Post assess:Give the students the correct pronunciation, lead them to repeat the correct pronunciation, and then give the words, let them mark the stress.

Define feature:All the pronunciation of Chinese only exists in four stresses. ā,á,â,à

Positive instances

Prototype: nî hâo, wán mêi

positive instance: rén shēng, hâo xìang, kāi xīn

Correlational Features:

Monosyllabic pre attached elements (vice, general, non, anti, Chao, Lao, a, Ke, Wu, ban, etc.) or monosyllabic post attached elements (Zi, er, tou, Xing, Zhe, yuan, Jia, Shou, Hua, men, etc.) are linked with other words. For example: fùbùzhǎnɡ(副部长) zǒnɡɡōnɡchénɡshī(总工程师)

4. Monosyllabic word overlapping, continuous writing; disyllabic word overlapping, separate writing. For example:rénrén(人人) niánnián(年年)

In order to facilitate reading and understanding, some coordinate words, morphemes or some abbreviations can be used in conjunction. For example: bā-jiǔ tiān(八九天) shíqī-bā suì(十七八岁)

Negative instances

hâo le, hâo de