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An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Chinese Character Recognition and Production
Author(s) -
KE CHUANREN
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1996.tb01615.x
Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , task (project management) , production (economics) , complement (music) , psychology , character recognition , correlation , second language , chinese language , linguistics , cognitive psychology , mathematics , engineering , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , systems engineering , complementation , gene , economics , macroeconomics , phenotype
This study investigated the relationship between Chinese character recognition and production by second language (L2) learners. A panel study, which employed an instrument consisting of a character recognition task and a production task, was adopted. Subjects were 47 first‐year Chinese language students in the U.S. There were three major findings in this study: (a) Although the correlations between character recognition and production for both Time 1 (T1) and Time 2 (T2) were moderate, it appeared that there was a decrease of correlation for T2; (b) Students performed better in the recognition tasks than in the production tasks; (c) Students performed better with low density characters than high density characters in the production tasks. Direction for future research to complement the findings of the current study is also suggested.