Zhang noted that students following the Russian textbook wouldn't complete their study of basic grammar until they had nearly finished high school. Feeling that this was not a good way to raise the standard of students 'Russian, Zhang isolated important and regular structures-things like changing the part of speech of words, the use of verbs, sentence structure and compound sentences-and taught them early on.
按照當時大陸俄語教科書的編排，要到高中快畢業前才能學完基本文法，他認為這樣不利於提高學生的水平，所以就把常見、重要、有規律的文法，列出幾個重點，如詞性變化、動詞用法、句子結構、複合句等，提前教授。