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- Title
學齡前幼兒書寫漢字特徵之分析.
- Authors
張菀真; 辜玉旻
- Abstract
This study aims to understand the performance of preschool children in writing Chinese characters before they receive formal literacy education, as well as the characteristics of their Chinese character-writing samples, by analyzing them based on the construction principles of Chinese orthography. The participants included 79 kindergarteners (mean age = 74.9 months) and 79 preschoolers (mean age = 63.7 months) from four kindergartens in northern Taiwan. The children’s Chinese character writing performance was collected through designated writing, guided writing and free writing tasks and the writing products were coded into correct characters, transitional characters and incorrect characters. The results showed that the characteristics of correct writing samples are simple/one-component characters with left and right symmetry, or compound characters with repeated stroke patterns. Most of the incorrect characters are from those of preschoolers who attempted to write their own characters with invented-spelling. The major characteristics of transitional character writings include errors in the configuration of strokes, missing or adding a stroke, and mirror writing. In conclusion, young children’s early Chinese character writing tends to rely on the visual clues of stroke to construct characters, and their knowledge of Chinese orthography is still limited.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; PRESCHOOL children; CHINESE characters; PRODUCT coding; PERFORMANCE in children; LITERACY education; KINDERGARTEN children; CALLIGRAPHY
- Publication
Journal of Education Research (1680-6360), 2023, Issue 353, p99
- ISSN
1680-6360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.53106/168063602023090353007