Zhang's principles of language pedagogy, which have been transplanted from Chinese literacy training to Russian language training to English pedagogy, are simple: that one begins with the simple and moves to the complex, and that familiarity engenders fluency. Zhang also believes that rapid progress naturally results from constant review and the use of spelling to memorize large amounts of vocabulary.
從中文識字、學習俄語再到英語教學，張思中認為，語言學習的原則不外由淺入深、熟能生巧，利用拼音法大量記憶生字，不斷重複練習，自然能突飛猛進。