South Korea And Europe Learners Chinese Character Recognition Processing Strategy Research

This study investigated the processing strategies used by beginning, intermediate and advanced learners who are from Korea and Europe, to recognize Chinese characters in short-term memory. The predominant processing strategy used would be revealed by the types of errors made on the recognition test. Errors were categorized as being of five kinds: graphic errors, phonologic errors, semantic errors, graphic and phonologic errors, graphic and semantic errors. There were five processing strategies: graphic, phonologic, semantic, graphic and phonologic errors, graphic and semantic. A total of ninety Korean and European readers (30 at the beginning level, 30 at the intermediate level and 30 at the advanced level) participated. The stimuli used were forty-five high frequency Chinese characters selected on the basis of the analysis of their phonetic and logographic radical features. The way of quick appearance was adopted in this study. The subjects viewed different slides. After viewing, using a response paper, circled the characters they thought they had seen on the slide. It was found that the graphic strategy was predominantly used by the beginning subjects and intermediate European subjects; The intermediate Korean subjects used a mixed graphic and phonologic strategies; The advanced subjects used a mixed graphic and phonologic processing strategies; The different first-language background and Chinese level of the subjects affected the processing strategy used. English–speaking subjects made significantly more graphic errors, semantic errors, graphic and phonologic errors, graphic and semantic errors than Korean subjects; From the beginning to the advanced, the semantic strategy is not the predominant strategy.