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| Publications [#227702] of Kun Shan C. Lee
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- Li, J; Lee, K-S, The radicals’ importance for Chinese characters’ cognition,
Journal of Chinese Teaching in the World, vol. vol 4
(Winter, 2005) (in press.) .
(last updated on 2025/07/03)
Abstract:
The language curriculum is divided into two
tracks in Elementary Chinese at the Chinese
Program in Duke University, United States. A
survey on how these two groups of students
apply the strategies of radical recognition
and the strategies of decoding the function
of Chinese radicals are investigated in this
paper. By examining the process of
distinguishing the radicals that are
approximate in form, the influence of
homophone characters, the consciousness on
semantic extension of Chinese radicals,
degree of understanding of derivation and so
on, the authors found that there are the
similarities and differences between the two
type of learners. Finally, we discuss the
importance of Chinese radicals in the
cognitive procedure of Chinese characters
from different aspects e.g. writing,
aggregating characters and clue to the meanings.
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