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Development of Radical Awareness at Initial Learning Stage in L2 Chinese: Stronger vs. Weaker Learners of Chinese Characters
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Chen, Tianxu – Language Awareness, 2022
Radical awareness (i.e. the ability to identify, analyze, and manipulate radicals within compound characters) plays an important role in character reading and learning for first language and second language (L2) learners of Chinese. Previous studies have shown that radical awareness contributes to character recognition, inference, and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Orthographic Symbols
Word Learning in L2 Chinese: From Perspectives of Learner-Related and Language-Related Factors
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Chen, Tianxu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Word learning in a second language (L2) is a complex process, which is affected by learner-related (e.g., morphological awareness) and language-related (e.g., word semantic transparency) factors. Morphological awareness is learners' sensitivity to the morphological structure of printed words, and semantic transparency is the degree to which…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphology (Languages)