The Emerging Learning Design Journal
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Abstract
For learners unfamiliar with character-based or logosyllabic writing systems, the process of developing literacy in written Chinese poses significantly more obstacles than learning to read and write in a second language like Portuguese or Cherokee. In this article we describe the linguistic nature of Chinese characters; we outline traditional and new media approaches to Chinese character acquisition; we unpack how multimodal technologies combined with computational linguistics might be used to provide new types of support for Chinese character learning; and we offer a design that incorporates several of these concepts into a digital writing support tool that could work as a scaffold to enable Chinese language students to leverage their Chinese listening and speaking skills as well as their visual literacies in support of producing and learning Chinese characters.
Recommended Citation
Olmanson, Justin and Liu, Xianquan
(2018)
"The Challenge of Chinese Character Acquisition: Leveraging Multimodality in Overcoming a Centuries-Old Problem,"
The Emerging Learning Design Journal: Vol. 4:
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1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/eldj/vol4/iss1/1
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