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Direct linkAllen, Joseph R. – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
This article argues that for students of Chinese and Japanese, learning to write Chinese characters ("hanzi/kanji") by hand from memory is an inefficient use of resources. Rather, beginning students should focus on character/word recognition (reading) and electronic writing. Although electronic technologies have diminished the usefulness of…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Written Language, Romanization, Personality
Peer reviewedLight, Timothy – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1976
Reports on a study to determine whether students of Chinese read faster when the text is written in characters than when written in Romanization. Results show reading efficiency as determined by speed and errors in translation to be greater with Romanization, while there is more overall accuracy with characters. (CLK)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Chinese, Ideography, Language Instruction
Robson, Barbara – 1982
A study examined the effects of literacy in a Roman alphabet on the performance of Hmong refugees in a three-month program of English as a second language (ESL) and cultural orientation located in Thailand. Upon registration, information was gathered from program participants on previous education and reading ability in Hmong. The 114 subjects…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Educational Background, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationDellinger, David W. – 1976
This programed text for learning to read Thai was originally designed for students having a grounding in Thai phonology and some facility with the language, but it has been made useful for students without this background by the inclusion of a summary of Thai phonology and the use of romanization. The text is organized according to the three…
Descriptors: Consonants, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Phonology
Download full textBurnaby, Barbara J.; Anthony, Robert J. – 1979
This study examined the psycholinguistic implications of using either of two different types of orthography--syllabic and roman--in Native language programs for Cree children with regard to readability, learnability, and the transfer of reading skills to and from reading in an official language (English or French). This study can also be applied…
Descriptors: Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education
Chu, Show-chih Rai – 1973
This textbook presents the study of Chinese through the use of English grammar in the hopes of moderating the extremes of the direct method and of structural analysis. It is intended to cover a one-year course, or six semester hours of introductory Chinese. The book contains 16 lessons, of which the first seven use romanized phonetic forms and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Instructional Innovation
