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The Effect of Acquiring the Read Chinese Characters on Achievements from Learning to Read Chinese - Focused on the Elementary Courses of Reading Chinese for College Freshmen -

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2008, (17), pp.97-118
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2008..17.006
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : August 31, 2008

이계화 1 Seri Kim 2

1가톨릭대학교
2경희대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

In studying the Chinese language, it is more important than anything else to learn accurately Chinese characters that symbolize the Chinese language. If the major concern of the Chinese language education is to maximize the Chinese language capability of learners within the shortest period, the education of Chinese characters is a basic and difficult point of the Chinese language education. Reading is a linguistic function which can be approached most efficiently. This is because the learners are already seeing and reading the characters on opening books. Therefore, reading is an important linguistic function to be trained from the beginning stage of the Chinese language study. In this paper, through a survey of questionnaire, we propose that securing the ability of reading the Chinese language and the proficiency in that language is significantly dependent on the acquisition of Chinese characters. In addition, the result indicates that adopting the education of Chinese characters into the traditional reading class has a positive effect on the achievement level of learner’s performance in reading. Finally, admitting the limit of this study, more scrutinized analyses of the effects of acquisition of the Chinese characters on the vocabulary, grammatical structures, sentence comprehension, reading speed, etc. are suggested, as well as a study on how the acquisition of the Chinese characters may influence other linguistic functions when the teaching of Chinese characters is applied to the classes for listening, speaking and writing of the Chinese language.

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