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YiHsuan Wood; Jeffrey J. Green; Ellen Knell; Yu Liu – Language Awareness, 2025
This study used eye-tracking to investigate the real-time processing of phonetic and semantic radicals (components of Chinese characters that give clues to their pronunciation and meaning) by intermediate-level university Chinese foreign language (CFL) learners. Additionally, the study examined how knowledge and awareness of radicals affect…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yang, Shuyi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Language-specific features necessitate certain processes and skills in reading. The visually unmarked between-word boundaries in written Chinese render it critical that readers be able to segment words in the continuous texts. It may pose challenges for second language (L2) readers whose first language (L1) is word-spaced. In light of the lack of…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Lü, Chan – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
Pinyin is a sound-annotating system for Chinese characters using Roman letters. Teaching and learning Pinyin has been an important educational practice in Mainland China for native Chinese children, and it is also typically taught to beginning learners of Chinese as a foreign/second language in tertiary-level classrooms. However, whether it should…
Descriptors: Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Written Language, Second Language Learning
Wang, Qiuying; Anderson, Richard C. – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2010
This article describes a customized early reading intervention for a Chinese first grader at risk for failing to learn to read. Building upon observational notes, artifacts, diagnostic teaching, information about classroom performance, and a battery of tests, our goal is to provide insights into ways to develop and implement a one-on-one tutoring…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Grade 1, Reading Instruction, Written Language
Goodman, Kenneth S., Ed.; Wang, Shaomei, Ed.; Iventosch, Mieko, Ed.; Goodman, Yetta M., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Reading in Asian Languages" is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Korean Culture, Eye Movements
Chinese Education, 1977
Presents ideographic selections and class exercises from a Chinese first grade primer. Explanations in English are included. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Education, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Wu, Xinchun; Li, Wenling; Anderson, Richard C. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1999
Provides background information on the Chinese writing system and primary schools in China. Describes the Chinese reading and language arts curriculum, common instructional practices, and how students learn to read and write Chinese characters. Provides a typical lesson for developing reading comprehension. Discusses three ways for improving…
Descriptors: Chinese, Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
Bao-yun, Dai; Ji-ping, Lu – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1985
To make it easier for Chinese children to learn how to read, the Chinese writing system is being changed. The experimental approach of combining Chinese characters and pinyin is currently being carried out in Chinese primary schools. How this approach works in teaching children to read is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Sheridan, E. Marcia – 1979
The history of three non-Latin based orthographies--Chinese, Japanese, and Korean--is reviewed in this paper. The characteristics of the three orthographies are examined regarding the ease of learning to read with these varied symbol systems. Attention is given to the incidence of reading disability in different orthographies, and research is…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Asian Studies, Beginning Reading, Chinese
Loucky, John Paul – Bulletin of Seinan Jogakuin Junior College, 2001
What lessons can be learned from relevant research in vocabulary- and language-learning strategy training as well as from comparative studies on learning Oriental languages, which could have helpful applications to language learners from Kanji-background countries? Could both mnemonic and semantic field keyword approaches help these learners by…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Kung, Shiao-Chuan – ELT Journal, 2004
This paper describes a project involving EFL learners in synchronous electronic discussions. The output of the students' interactions was analyzed qualitatively to uncover the main linguistic and interactional features. It was observed that the students' discussions contained a large number of spelling, usage, and grammatical errors, an almost…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Bird, Norman, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Papers from a 1993 International Conference on Language in Education include: "A Language Development Approach to Education" (M. A. K. Halliday); Text, Talk, and Inquiry: Schooling as a Semiotic Apprenticeship" (G. Wells); "Chinese Orthography and Reading" (O. J. L. Tzeng); "Task-Centred Assessment in Language…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies