An Integrative Perceptual Approach for Teaching Chinese Characters

Shek Kam Tse; Ference Marton; Wing Wah Ki; Elizabeth Ka Yee Loh

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 35, No. 5 (September 2007) pp. 375–406

This paper is concerned with an innovative approach to teaching Chinese characters. Traditionally, pupils learn Chinese characters by repeatedly copying them until they can reproduce their form and pronunciation from memory. Most of the characters...