TY - JOUR
T1 - Using a radical-derived character e-learning platform to increase learner knowledge of Chinese characters
AU - Chen, Hsueh Chih
AU - Hsu, Chih Chun
AU - Chang, Li Yun
AU - Lin, Yu Chi
AU - Chang, Kuo En
AU - Sung, Yao Ting
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - 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, Chou, Sung, & Chang, 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.
AB - 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, Chou, Sung, & Chang, 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.
KW - Chinese as a foreign language (CFL)
KW - Chinese orthographic awareness
KW - Phonetic/semantic radicals
KW - Radical-derived character instructional method
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84872876785
SN - 1094-3501
VL - 17
SP - 89
EP - 106
JO - Language Learning and Technology
JF - Language Learning and Technology
IS - 1
ER -