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A Technology-Supported Learning Experience To Facilitate Chinese Character Acquisition, Xianquan Liu, Justin Olmanson
A Technology-Supported Learning Experience To Facilitate Chinese Character Acquisition, Xianquan Liu, Justin Olmanson
The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal
Chinese character Learning has been identified as one of the most challenging issues for English-speaking learners of Chinese due to the distinctions between the Chinese writing system and alphabetic languages in terms of orthography, phonology and semantics. In order to support Western students in overcoming the challenges associated with Chinese character learning a contextualized, socio-cultural approach to character learning was designed. Aimed at novice learners of Chinese, this design draws on social constructivism and Universal Design for Learning--contextualizing the learning experience and affording students to work on acquiring characters via several distinct avenues. The project-based inquiry design supports the exploration …