Using a radical-derived character e-learning platform to increase learner knowledge of Chinese characters

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Volume 17 Number 1, February 2013 Special Issue on Less Commonly Taught Languages - Language Learning & Technology

contributor.author:

Chen, Hsueh-Chih Hsu, Chih-Chun Chang, Li-Yun Lin, Yu-Chi Chang, Kuo-En Sung, Yao-Ting

date.accessioned:

2013-05-15T18:13:44Z

date.available:

2013-05-15T18:13:44Z

date.issued:

2013-02-01

description.abstract:

The present study is aimed at investigating the effect of a radical-derived Chinese character teaching strategy on enhancing Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) learners’ Chinese orthographic awareness. An e-learning teaching platform, based on statistical data from the Chinese Orthography Database Explorer (Chen, Chang, L.Y., Chou, Sung, & Chang, K.E., 2011), was established and used as an auxiliary teaching tool. A nonequivalent pretest-posttest quasi-experiment was conducted, with 129 Chinese-American CFL learners as participants (69 people in the experimental group and 60 people in the comparison group), to examine the effectiveness of the e-learning platform. After a three-week course—involving instruction on Chinese orthographic knowledge and at least seven phonetic/semantic radicals and their derivative characters per week—the experimental group performed significantly better than the comparison group on a phonetic radical awareness test, a semantic radical awareness test, as well as an orthography knowledge test.

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106

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18 pages

identifier.citation:

Chen, H.-C., Hsu, C.-C., Chang, L.-Y., Lin, Y.-C., Chang, K.-E., & Sung, Y.-T. (2013). Using a radical-derived character e-learning platform to increase learner knowledge of Chinese characters. Language Learning & Technology, 17(1), 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10125/24511

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1094-3501 1094-3501

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24511

number:

1

publicationname:

Language Learning & Technology

publisher:

University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research

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Language Learning & Technology, Volume 17, Number 1

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/item/10125-24511/

startingpage:

89

subject:

Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Chinese Orthographic Awareness Radical-Derived Character Instructional Method Phonetic/Semantic Radicals

title:

Using a radical-derived character e-learning platform to increase learner knowledge of Chinese characters

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Article

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Text

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17