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Vlieghe, Joris – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
In this article, I deal with the transition from traditional "school" forms of instruction to educational processes that are fully mediated by digital technologies. Against the background of the idea the very institution "school" is closely linked to the invention of the alphabetic writing system and to the need of initiating…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Allen, 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