A Web-based Supplementary Chinese Pictophonetic Character Learning System in Component Methodology

• Main Authors: Lao, Filipe Jose, 劉嘉俊
• Other Authors: Chen, Herng-Yow
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28151018623992715268

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 資訊工程學系 === 101 === In a year of Chinese teaching experiences, we noticed that many learners suffered from Chinese characters with the similar sound or shape — many of them are pictophonetic characters such as “情” (Qíng) and “請” (Qǐng). Their difficulties motivate us to design a character learning tool, which can turn a pictophonetic Chinese character into two parts (meaning radical and sound radical) and present them with animated pictures and sound. We hope learners can better understand the meaning and sound of the character and the relationship with its components. The system provides exercises to extend their vocabulary through learning a set of new words which share the same component. New words are selected on the basis of character frequency with another part change either radical or phonetic component, so that learners trend to learn more common words. The experimental result shows that our approach can help beginners and low-intermediate learners to learn pictophonetic characters. Chinese teachers appreciate our system for encourage autonomous learners.