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Tse, Shek Kam; Marton, Ference; Ki, Wing Wah; Ka Yee Loh, Elizabeth – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2007
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Written Language, Teaching Methods
Green, Laura Chris – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2004
English language learners may bring linguistic knowledge in the area of cognates to their learning of new English words, but they also will have special vocabulary learning needs that English speakers will not. They need to learn basic, survival words that English speakers begin school knowing, words such as house, school, walk, and eat. They also…
Descriptors: Written Language, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods