Applied Linguistics (Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong)


No. 2 , Pages 79 - 85 , 2002

What is the Most Effective Strategy for Learning Chinese Characters: A Survey Among CSL Beginners (Article written in Chinese)

ZHAO Guo & JIANG Xin

Abstract

The correlation analysis between the strategies for learning Chinese characters and the character test scores of the CSL (Chinese as a Second Language) beginners show that: 1) Applying Chinese characters in reading and writing is greatly helpful in learning Chinese characters; 2) Memorizing the character shape as a whole or writing the character mechanically might not be effective in learning Chinese characters; 3) Using radical components to learn Chinese characters is effective; 4) The studying of pictophonetic characters is more related to the strategies than that of the non-pictophonetic characters.

Keywords: learning strategy; Chinese character learning; Chinese as a second language; beginners’level

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