This study investigates what beginning learners of Chinese perceive as helpful in learning to recognize characters. Thirteen English-speaking participants in a beginning Chinese class answered journal questions and completed a survey over one semester at a large Midwestern university. Findings suggest that participants perceived the usefulness of different ways of learning: (a) Studying characters individually strongly facilitated the learning of Chinese orthography and also helped with meaning and pronunciation; (b) using characters in context strongly supported the learning of meaning and pronunciation; (c) practicing characters through cooperative learning created a good learning environment, provided support and facilitated meaningful interaction for learners. Participants thought it was helpful to focus on individual characters for orthography and use characters in context for meaning.
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Previous issue date: 2011-10
endingpage:
224
identifier.doi:
10125/66851
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66851
number:
2
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
Lexis
site_url:
/rfl/item/245
startingpage:
208
subject:
character recognition beginning learners of Chinese orthography meaning pronunciation
title:
Beginning students' perceptions of effective activities for Chinese character recognition
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