tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Applications of GPC Rules and Character Structures in Games for Learning Chinese Characters"

We demonstrate applications of psycholinguistic and sublexical information for learning Chinese characters. The knowledge about the grapheme-phoneme conversion (GPC) rules of languages has been shown to be highly correlated to the ability of reading alphabetic languages and Chinese. | Applications of GPC Rules and Character Structures in Games for Learning Chinese Characters Wei-Jie Huang TChia-Ru Chou Yu-Lin Tzeng Chia-Ying Lee Chao-Lin Liu National Chengchi University Taiwan TIAcademia Sinica Taiwan chaolin@ chiaying@ Abstract We demonstrate applications of psycholinguistic and sublexical information for learning Chinese characters. The knowledge about the grapheme-phoneme conversion GPC rules of languages has been shown to be highly correlated to the ability of reading alphabetic languages and Chinese. We build and will demo a game platform for strengthening the association of phonological components in Chinese characters with the pronunciations of the characters. Results of a preliminary evaluation of our games indicated significant improvement in learners response times in Chinese naming tasks. In addition we construct a Webbased open system for teachers to prepare their own games to best meet their teaching goals. Techniques for decomposing Chinese characters and for comparing the similarity between Chinese characters were employed to recommend lists of Chinese characters for authoring the games. Evaluation of the authoring environment with 20 subjects showed that our system made the authoring of games more effective and efficient. 1 Introduction Learning to read and write Chinese characters is a challenging task for learners of Chinese. To read everyday news articles one needs to learn thousands of Chinese characters. The official agents in Taiwan and China respectively chose 5401 and 3755 characters as important basic characters in national standards. Consequently the general public has gained the impression that it is not easy to read Chinese articles because each of these thousands of characters is written in different ways. Teachers adopt various strategies to help learners to memorize Chinese characters. An instructor at the University of Michigan made up stories based on decomposed characters to help .