caa a22 4500 463209990 CHVBK 20180405153137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11251-006-9011-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11251-006-9011-4 An integrative perceptual approach for teaching Chinese characters [Elektronische Daten] [Shek Kam Tse, Ference Marton, Wing Wah Ki, Elizabeth Ka Yee Loh] 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 pupils are required to learn are selected on the basis of their frequency in adult written communications rather in everyday child usage. The process takes many years and is perceived by pupils as laborious and boring. The writers of the paper developed an approach based on the phenomenographic approach to learning and on various pioneering ways of teaching Chinese characters. Learning starts with the pupils' own language and characters are introduced and used in contexts meaningful to the pupil, attention being drawn systematically to structural features, written form and pronunciation. Characters are learnt in relational clusters, similarities and variations among related characters in the clusters being used by teachers to highlight and emphasise crucial aspects of Chinese characters and words. The learning mastered serves as a foundation for subsequent learning. After an in-depth discussion of theory and pedagogy, the writers report an investigation in four primary schools in Hong Kong that yields strong support for the efficacy of the approach. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Chinese characters nationallicence integrative perceptual approach nationallicence mental lexicon nationallicence pedagogy nationallicence phenomenographic theory nationallicence structural awareness nationallicence Tse Shek Kam Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China aut Marton Ference Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden aut Ki Wing Wah Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China aut Loh Elizabeth Ka Yee Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China aut Instructional Science Kluwer Academic Publishers 35/5(2007-09-01), 375-406 0020-4277 35:5<375 2007 35 11251 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-006-9011-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-006-9011-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tse Shek Kam Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marton Ference Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ki Wing Wah Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Loh Elizabeth Ka Yee Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Instructional Science Kluwer Academic Publishers 35/5(2007-09-01), 375-406 0020-4277 35:5<375 2007 35 11251 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer