{"title":"The effectiveness of visual instructions in the memorization of Chinese Semantic Radicals by Beginners","authors":"Tian Tian, Maria dos Santos Lonsdale, Vien Cheung","doi":"10.1075/idj.21010.tia","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The acquisition of Chinese Characters (CCs) is challenging for learners. Chinese Semantic Radicals (SRs) are semantic components of CCs. The memorization of SRs facilitates the acquisition of CCs when learning Chinese as a second language. This study investigates the effectiveness of Visual Instructions (VIs) in the memorization of SRs by beginners. A preliminary study and three other studies have been conducted. The results have shown that the use of color-coded illustrations helps learners remember the meanings, shapes, and positions of SRs. This could be seen in the significantly increased accuracy of the responses in memory tests. These findings are an important contribution to research on VIs and on the memorization of SRs by beginners.","PeriodicalId":35109,"journal":{"name":"Information Design Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Information Design Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.21010.tia","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The acquisition of Chinese Characters (CCs) is challenging for learners. Chinese Semantic Radicals (SRs) are semantic components of CCs. The memorization of SRs facilitates the acquisition of CCs when learning Chinese as a second language. This study investigates the effectiveness of Visual Instructions (VIs) in the memorization of SRs by beginners. A preliminary study and three other studies have been conducted. The results have shown that the use of color-coded illustrations helps learners remember the meanings, shapes, and positions of SRs. This could be seen in the significantly increased accuracy of the responses in memory tests. These findings are an important contribution to research on VIs and on the memorization of SRs by beginners.
学习汉字（CC）对学习者来说是一项挑战。汉语语义部首（SR）是 CC 的语义组成部分。在汉语作为第二语言的学习中，记忆语义部首有助于掌握 CC。本研究探讨了视觉指令（VI）对初学者记忆语义部首的有效性。我们进行了一项初步研究和另外三项研究。结果表明，使用彩色编码的插图有助于学习者记忆符号的含义、形状和位置。这可以从记忆测试中回答的准确性明显提高中看出来。这些研究结果是对VI和初学者记忆SR研究的重要贡献。
期刊介绍：
Information Design Journal (IDJ) is a peer reviewed international journal that bridges the gap between research and practice in information design. IDJ is a platform for discussing and improving the design, usability, and overall effectiveness of ‘content put into form’ — of verbal and visual messages shaped to meet the needs of particular audiences. IDJ offers a forum for sharing ideas about the verbal, visual, and typographic design of print and online documents, multimedia presentations, illustrations, signage, interfaces, maps, quantitative displays, websites, and new media. IDJ brings together ways of thinking about creating effective communications for use in contexts such as workplaces, hospitals, airports, banks, schools, or government agencies.
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