Writing Chinese or Typing Chinese? Advantages and Disadvantages of Computer Assisted Instruction for Teaching Chinese Characters to Foreign Students in Comparison With Traditional Approaches

• Main Author: 黃亦敏
• Other Authors: Dennis Schilling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7bcx77

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 華語文教學碩士學位學程 === 101 === People have regarded writing Chinese Characters with hands as a difficulty for a long time. Some suggested that computer might be the good solution to solve this problem. The rapid development of Chinese typing has already changed the way people write. Therefore many teachers and students started to consider that it might be a better way to type with computers than to write with our own hands while we are learning Chinese characters. However, writing with stiff pen is still a main teaching approach both in teaching native and second language. Therefore, we’d like to know which approach is better for learning Chinese characters. The present study wants to do find out the advantages and disadvantages of these two learning strategies by literature review and content analysis. To conclude this research, to write with hands is truly harder than to type with computers. However, writing with hands could help learners building better Chinese character perception, and help learners having better consciousness of the details of every single character. Moreover, if the learners want to maintain the literacy ability of Chinese, writing would be a better learning strategy to choose. While writing with hands has such advantages, learners still can get some benefit from typing with computers. Learners could contact with amount of Chinese characters or information by using computers or their digital products. It gives learners more practices and learning opportunities. Learners could easily extend their learning by using worldwide internet. In addition, typing ability is a necessary ability in modern life. Therefore learners should not ignore to know how to use computer to type Chinese characters. According to this research, both typing or handwriting has its own advantages and disadvantages. In order to have a better learning effect, teachers should not refuse to use one of them. At the different situations and different levels, teachers could use different approaches.