泰国学习者形义字构形意识发展研究—以会意字为例

The Study of Orthographic Awareness Development of Thai Students on Picto-Semantic Characters: A Case Study of Associative Characters

Abstract

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 that the formation components are more beneficial for elementary students in learning low frequency associative characters. However, for intermediate students, both formation and non-formation components have the same effect on their learnings. It can be concluded that Thai students have a certain degree of knowledge about formation and non-formation components since the beginning of their Chinese character learnings. Moreover, students also can use the ideographic features of each kind of components to access to the meanings of associative characters, especially in low frequency associative characters, the ideographic features of formation components seem to be more beneficial for the elementary students.