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Article
Demythologising Pennycook’s Puzzle: Chinese Memorization in Foreign Language Education
Author(s)
Xia Yu
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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2016.10.006
Affiliation(s)
Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China
ABSTRACT
In an attempt to demythologise Pennycook’s
Puzzle proposed two decades ago, this paper
revists Chinese “rote learning” through the lens of memorisation of
texts. Drawing on heuristics or insights culled from literature as well as the authors’ own research, the author
argues that repetitive learners are not equal to rote learners; flexible memorisers differ essentially from
mere memorisers; and text memorisers are not necessarily unhappy learners.
KEYWORDS
Chinese memorization, foreign language education, rote learning
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