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Tam, Vincent – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2012
Purpose: Learning Chinese is unquestionably very important and popular worldwide with the fast economic growth of China. To most foreigners and also local students, one of the major challenges in learning Chinese is to write Chinese characters in correct stroke sequences that are considered as significant in the Chinese culture. However, due to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer System Design, Computer Software
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Zhuang, Yueting; Zhang, Xiafen; Lu, Weiming; Wu, Fei – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2007
Chinese brush calligraphy is a valuable civilization legacy and a high art of scholarship. It is still popular in Chinese banners, newspaper mastheads, university names, and celebration gifts. There are Web sites that try to help people enjoy and learn Chinese calligraphy. However, there lacks advanced services such as content-based retrieval or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Handwriting, Writing Instruction
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Hsiao, Janet Hui-wen; Shillcock, Richard – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
The complexity of Chinese orthography has hindered the progress of research in Chinese to the same level of sophistication of that in alphabetic languages such as English. Also, there has been no publicly available resource concerning the decomposition of Chinese characters, which is essential in any attempt to model the cognitive processes of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Etymology, Semantics, Romanization