The purpose of this study is observing the process of learning Chinese character of preschool children and clarifying their language ability and the level and range of vocabulary. This paper sees the process of Korean children acquiring vocabulary in two ways: The first one is researching the vocabularies used in children's stories that preschool children often read or hear. The other one is researching the vocabularies that children hear or speak in the conversation with surroundings. To this end, two methodologies have been adopted: literature analysis and observation analysis. Literature analysis is investigating the fairy tales that children likes and analyzing the Chinese characters and vocabularies used. Observation analysis is recording the conversations between a child and his surroundings, and then transcribing and analyzing it. Almost every child reads fairy tales that helps to the formation of children's language ability. Therefore, the language of children's stories is the expectancy which Korean society expects children to understand the accomplished living environment and culture to. Therefore, children contact the basic cultural vocabulary in Korean society, contacting fairy tales. Children develop their intelligence and language through engaging in the daily conversations with their parents and acquaintances. Although they are influenced by communications with their peers of the same age group, the contents and range of the language used in the context of their surroundings affect a lot more. Thus, the process of children's language acquisition is developed through the conversations with parents and acquaintances. It is very possible that the language ability of a child in a family is transferred by parents rather than the intelligence and the ability of the child. Consequently, studying children’s Chinese character vocabulary through the two processes, you can see how level of the Chinese character vocabulary that children contact and use is, what characteristics it has and how much the range of use is.
With technology applied to Chinese, we can create new classes of learning experience and learning content development, such as: - Stroke operation, such as counting, stroke ordering, stroke type analysis, stroke writing animation and interactive exercise with records. - Chinese characters and components, usage and frequency of components and its position inside different characters.- Character information such as phonetic code, radical and components.- Cross linkage between Chinese character, words and English meaning.- Automatic publishing of Chinese tool book, such as index by stroke, phonetic code, radical, etc.- Create exercise for keywords and key sentences of essay.- Content adaption for Computer, Web sites, Mobile App and printed materials.- Innovative learning experience such as multimedia and interactive content, 3Deffects and Augmented Reality (AR).
This article illustrates how children learn to understand written materials independently from a psychological point of view, without the aid of mouth, ears and eyes (reading pivot). Under the guidance of classification theory of teaching objective, what pupils should master in learning vernacular Chinese and classical Chinese reading skills is procedural knowledge, which is what macro teaching program (curriculum aim formation, textbook compilation) and micro teaching plan (class hour teaching plan, lesson preparation) highlight. It is necessary to limit the share of declarative knowledge in order to avoid squeezing the time for procedural knowledge learning. Pupils learn how to pause correctly, read fluently, recognize and write Chinese characters, which are all procedural knowledge. The low efficiency of Chinese teaching in primary school owes much to many unnecessary declarative knowledge added to procedural knowledge learning. Pupil’s writing ability should be trained according to the laws of motor skills.
This thesis suggests the research direction of educating morphology of Classical Chinese Grammar in Korea. This thesis mainly focuses on two things. First, developing Korean’s interpretation ability to the original text through the knowledge about morphology of Classical Chinese Grammar. Second, studying the way instructors teach Classical Chinese in morphological methods. In other words, we will look through the objects, contents, instructing methods and evaluation method of educating morphology. 1. The objects of educating morphology 1.1 Know the concept and type of morpheme. 1.2 Know the function and structure of morpheme. 1.3 Know the combination relationship of morpheme. 1.4 Know the concept and classification of a part of speech. 1.5 Know the principle of words formation. 1.6 Know the function of an expletive. 2. The contents of educating morphology 2.1 Theory of a part of speech 2.1.1 ‘A part of speech’ is the group of words with similar characteristics classified according to functions and meanings. Generally, words are classified by grammatical features. Grammatical features includes forms, meanings and functions. A group of words that are sorted by these features is called ‘A part of speech’, and the research about these groups of words is called ‘Theory of a part of speech’. 2.1.2 Words are grouped in ten parts in Korean school. Ten parts of speech are sorted to a substantive and an expletive. A substantive contains a noun, a pronoun, a numeral, a verb, an adjective and an adverb. An expletive includes a preposition, a conjunction, a particle and an exclamation. 2.2 Principle of words formation 2.2.1 Characteristics of ‘Classical Chinese words’ : ‘Classical Chinese vocabulary’ consists of ‘characters’, ‘words’, and ‘idioms’ in the respect of system of Classical Chinese. ‘Classical Chinese words’ are one part of ‘Classical Chinese vocabulary’ and make grammatical structure that contains the functions of words, phrases and sentences. In the system of Classical Chinese, ‘Classical Chinese characters’ are clearly different from ‘Classical Chinese words’. ‘Classical Chinese characters’ cannot make grammatical structures, but ‘Classical Chinese words’ make syntax structure of sentences. It is proper to say that ‘Classical Chinese words’ are di‐ or trisyllabic words in the system of Classical Chinese. 2.2.2 Classification of ‘Classical Chinese words’ : This study mainly focuses on ‘Written language’ before modern ages, and ‘newly made words’ after modern ages. 2.2.3 Classification of words by formation methods : In general, words are sorted to ‘Simplex’ and ‘Compound’. ‘Simplex’ consists of monosyllabic simplex and multisyllabic simplex. ‘Compound’ consists of compound, which is classified to an analogous term, a relative term and structural term, and derivative, which is classified to ‘root+affix’ structure and ‘affix+root’ structure. 3. Instructing method of morphology 3.1 When educating the organization of words, ‘Coined‐word‐segmentalization method’ is effective, and when educating the sort of words, ‘Language‐application method’, ‘Search‐out method’, and ‘Comparative‐learning method’ are effective. 3.2 ‘Instructing method through analyzing meanings of characters’ and ‘Instructing method through analyzing meanings of words’ are helpful to educating characters of Classical Chinese and words of Classical Chinese, respectively. 3.3 When educating multisyllabic vocabulary, ‘discussion, play‐a‐role method’, ‘comprehending‐through‐tales method’, ‘comprehending‐transformative‐use‐of‐vocabulary method’, ‘comprehending‐characteristics‐of‐onomatopoeic‐and‐mimesis method’ are effective to teaching idioms, compressive words, argot, and adjective words, respectively. 4. Evaluation method of instructing morphology Evaluation of instructing morphology about Classical Chinese should be done as an extension of ‘teaching and learning morphology’ Instructing morphology about Classical Chinese can be evaluated by following questions. “Can learners find, by on their own, grammatical functions, meanings and combination principles of morphemes through real materials?” And we can evaluate learners abilities of observation, judgement, analysis and synthesis in that process. In Korea, achievement levels and standards are developed, which are based on current curriculum of Classical Chinese subject in middle∙high school. So we studied evaluation method of instructing morphology by these criteria.