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The reading of handwriting: An evaluation of Chinese written by CFL learners.

Zhang, Qi ORCID: 0000-0002-1061-4036 and Reilly, Ronan G. (2016) The reading of handwriting: An evaluation of Chinese written by CFL learners. In: The Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of Society for Scientific Studies of Reading (23rd SSSR), 13-16 July, 2016, University of Porto, Portugal.

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Abstract

This paper describes two experiments that first explore the potential role of Chinese character writing in character visual recognition, and then examine different evaluative responses towards the quality of pinyin and character handwriting. Taken together, the results suggest that drawing Chinese characters privileges them in memory in a way that facilitates their subsequent visual recognition. This is true even when the congruency of the recognition response and other potential confounds are controlled for. In terms of the writing quality, the reader’s empathy effect can be found for handwritten characters but not pinyin, since the handwritten characters tended to be rated more highly than pinyin. The experience of an evaluator also has an impact on the evaluation of writing quality. The pedagogical implications for Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) are highlighted at the end of the paper, in particular those relating to curriculum design and teacher training.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Chinese characters; Pinyin; Reading Recognition; Evaluation
Subjects:Humanities > Translating and interpreting
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies
Copyright Information:©2018 The Authors
ID Code:22630
Deposited On:06 Sep 2018 13:11 by Fran Callaghan . Last Modified 05 Nov 2021 16:53

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