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Learning Chinese Characters with Animated Etymology

Learning Chinese Characters with Animated Etymology

Jian He, Hui Huang
Copyright: © 2014 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 2155-7098|EISSN: 2155-7101|EISBN13: 9781466653061|DOI: 10.4018/ijcallt.2014040105
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He, Jian, and Hui Huang. "Learning Chinese Characters with Animated Etymology." IJCALLT vol.4, no.2 2014: pp.64-82. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcallt.2014040105

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He, J. & Huang, H. (2014). Learning Chinese Characters with Animated Etymology. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), 4(2), 64-82. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcallt.2014040105

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He, Jian, and Hui Huang. "Learning Chinese Characters with Animated Etymology," International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) 4, no.2: 64-82. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcallt.2014040105

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Abstract

The study was an attempt to investigate the effect of animated etymology on English speakers' learning of Chinese characters. Twenty-one Chinese language beginners at an Australian university were randomly assigned into three groups using three different types of instructional materials to learn Chinese characters: a) paper-based plain text material with only English meanings; b) paper-based material with English meanings, pictures and static etymological information; and c) CALL material with English meanings, pictures and animated etymological information. The effects of three materials were tested under two task conditions: a) picture-enhanced tasks and b) non-picture-enhanced tasks. Through both within-group and cross-group comparisons, the statistical results indicate that the group using computer-based materials involving animated etymology significantly outperformed those using the paper-based materials with and without illustrated etymological information in both tasks and the advantages of paper-based illustrated etymological information over the paper-based group without such information are limited to the tasks involving pictures.

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