This study aims to investigate the orthographic awareness development of Thai students on picto-semantic characters, and the associative characters were used as the representative of picto-semantic characters. The result shows that elementary... and intermediate students used both bottom-up and top- down model in learning high frequency associative characters, but both levels of students more rely on bottom-up model in learning low frequency associative characters. Moreover, the result shows

The purposes of this research were to : (1) design the mind map of Chinese Character teaching in Thailand middles and Experimental studying on Chinese Characters teaching; (2) contrast the feasibility of Chinese characters and students’ ability... after applying the mind map; (3) improve the reliability of Chinese character teaching mind map mode and making the efficiency of learning process and qualified rate eighty percents or more; (4) inspect the students’ attitude towards the mind map

Based onthe same group of Thai university students’ compositions corpus at each grade. This paper mainly analyzes the characteristicand dynamic regularities of Chinese character writing errors by Thai learners. The result shows: 1) the rate... of errors of wrong characters obviously higher than misused charactersat each grade, but with the increase of the Chinese language level and the number of characters they learn, wrong characters reduce in number and misused characters increase, 2) the most

In this paper, Based on the analysis of the cognitive ability of Chinese character structure of Thai primary Chinese learners, this paper further explores its influencing factors, and puts forward teaching strategies on the basis of Chinese... character teaching principles. Fifty Thai primary Chinese learners are investigated with four Chinese character structures: left-right structure, left-middle-right structure, Upper-down structure and upper-middle-lower structure. A survey was conducted among

Apart from the Taiwanese Chinese language school affiliated in Thailand, Chinese language departments in Thailand tend to teach only simplified Chinese characters. One noteworthy exception is at the International Assumption University which teaches... both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. Although freshman students use simplified character textbooks, they are asked to use traditional characters in class. Sophomore and third year students use only simplified characters while fourth year

Different countries have different methods of creating characters. The Chinese method of character formation is a combination of strokes. These are pictorial characters where one character represents one meaning. Some Chinese characters have more... information on the origins of Chinese characters, their evolution, basic strokes and the way they are formed. If you look deeper into the internal structure of a Chinese character you can see that there are several characters within a single character

The origin of the character “美” is divided into two concepts which are “Yang da ze mei” (羊大则美) and “Yang ren wei mei” (羊人为美). Nowadays, the character “美” has retained the former meaning as in the past, such as delicious or renowned, etc. Furthermore..., “美” can generate several disyllabic words and polysyllabic words, especially the third meaning, satisfied, or good, can generate the most disyllabic and polysyllabic words. Based on the analysis of the character, vocabulary, and sentence levels

At present, learning Chinese characters is a big problem for foreign students. More and more attention has been paid to teaching Chinese characters to foreigners, and the research on various aspects of teaching Chinese characters is gradually... increasing. This thesis focuses on compositions written by 47 junior year students of Chinese major in University of Phayao. Moreover, the author also classifies and analyzes the students' errors in the use of Chinese characters. Based on the analysis

In the history of Chinese characters, pictograph is one of the earliest methods of making characters. Pictographs are the basic structural types of Chinese characters. The construction of Chinese characters must start with pictographs. Pictograms... are one of the easiest word-building methods, but they are also a very important word-building method. Tang Lan (2001) pointed out that the importance of pictographs in "Chinese philology" is "all the characters are not based on Pictographs, they cannot

Based on the previous research on the word groups of the Chinese character "xin", and integrating the research on the theories about Metonymy and Metaphor both in China and aboard, the cognitive frame of the Chinese character signifier "xin