Journal article
An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Chinese Character Recognition and Production
The Modern language journal (Boulder, Colo.), Vol.80(3), pp.340-349
10/01/1996
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1996.tb01615.x
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between Chinese character recognition and production by second language (L2) learners. A panel study, which employed an instrument consisting of a character recognition task and a production task, was adopted. Subjects were 47 first-year Chinese language students in the U.S. There were three major findings in this study: (a) Although the correlations between character recognition and production for both Time 1 (T1) and Time 2 (T2) were moderate, it appeared that there was a decrease of correlation for T2; (b) Students performed better in the recognition tasks than in the production tasks; (c) Students performed better with low density characters than high density characters in the production tasks. Direction for future research to complement the findings of the current study is also suggested. ©1996 The Modern Language Journal.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Chinese Character Recognition and Production
- Creators
- CHUANREN KE - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Modern language journal (Boulder, Colo.), Vol.80(3), pp.340-349
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1996.tb01615.x
- ISSN
- 0026-7902
- eISSN
- 1540-4781
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/1996
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984398013902771
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