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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Chinese characters"”.
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Phonological and Semantic Processing of Chinese Characters
… These studies also indicate the complexity of Chinese character recognition, with various factors being operative simultaneously, and these studies served as an informative means of exploring such complexities at a newer level of detail. Implications are discussed regarding various models of …
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Programming of Chinese characters for mechanical translation
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 1958
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Developmental Stages in Learning to Read Chinese Characters
… support a three-stage model in learning to read Chinese. Preschoolers who just begin learning to read are in the first, visual stage. They remember the first words by relying on a few distinctive features. As early as kindergarten, children begin using phonological information. The ability to use …
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Designing intelligent language tutoring system for learning Chinese characters
… intelligent tutoring system for recognition of Chinese characters, 2) the pedagogical effectiveness of different forms of information presentation and feedback. A prototype system (an iPad Chinese character tutor) was developed and was evaluated for its effectiveness and usability. In the …
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Transfer of the knowledge of Chinese characters to Japanese
… of efforts and time are spent on teaching kanji (Chinese characters) to both native and non-native speakers of Japanese. For instance, average Japanese children spend more than ten years learning kanji to achieve functional literacy (Ishii, 1967). Since kanji are used for content words in …
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How knowledge of context and radicals influences a person's ability to learn to read Chinese characters
… and tones expressing emotion, trying to learn Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is a logographic language, meaning that each character represents a word and voice tone is used to differentiate between what would otherwise be homophones. In this thesis, I present two hypothesized methods for improving a …
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Strategies in the Writing of Chinese Characters by Intermediate and Advanced Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language
A technique for distinguishing between performance-based slips of the pen and competence-based knowledge errors is given. Implications for pedagogy and areas of future research are also discussed.
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The Effect of Instructional Embodiment Designs on Chinese Language Learning: The Use of Embodied Animation for Beginning Learners of Chinese Characters
… embodied animation on the retention outcomes of Chinese character learning (CCL) for beginning learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL). Chinese characters have three main features: semantic meaning, pronunciation, and written form. Chinese characters are different from English words in …
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Developmental stages in reading Chinese as a second language
… whether adult second language (L2) learners of Chinese go through stages when learning to read Chinese characters. A study conducted with preschoolers to 6th graders in China (Chen, 2004) had demonstrated that children whose native language (L1) is Chinese pass through three reading stages …
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A study of learning and teaching of Kanji for nonnative learners of Japanese
Kanji (Chinese characters) present a serious obstacle of learners of Japanese as a foreign language. Finding an effective and efficient way of teaching them is essential. However, there has not been much research done to investigate how non-native learners of Japanese, in particular English …
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The Development of Taiwanese Children's Ability to Infer Orthographic Information From Semantic and Phonological Information
… to help their reading and writing development in Chinese, a non-alphabetic language. The relationship between the acquisition of phoneme-grapheme correspondence and reading ability has been well-established for alphabetic orthographies. In Chinese, characters are the basic orthographic units and …
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Word perception and eye movements in Chinese reading
… in the study is concerned with how properties of Chinese characters and words affect word perception and eye movement control during reading. In Experiment I, subjects were presented with one- or two-character words briefly at different peripheral positions, and were required to recognize the …
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Chinese Scrabble : a web-based speech-enabled game for Chinese vocabulary building
… of this thesis is a web-based language game Chinese Scrabble, whose main objective is to help students of Chinese to practice speaking, to learn and review vocabulary both in pinyin and in Chinese characters. The game was intended to be very flexible and customizable in order to accommodate a …
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The nature and value of teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese as a school subject in South Africa: a case study of language and literacy ideologies in a public secondary school in South Africa
In 2014 Mandarin Chinese was officially introduced as a second addi9onal language in South Africa's school curriculum. With China's growing status and influence in the world, South Africa's current posi9oning within the BRICS and South Africa's strong rela9onship with China has raised the …
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Beliefs about language learning and their relationship to the ability to integrate information from multiple sources in interpreting novel kanji compounds
… compounds (i.e., words consisting of two or more Chinese characters).
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Character extraction from ancient Chinese stele using discrete cosine transform
… cosine transform (DCT) was applied to locate Chinese characters in ink rubbings of ancient Chinese steles (stone slabs with inscribed characters) in order to extract the characters by creating a bounding box in the image reconstructed by the inverse DCT. This work is a sub-project of a …
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