Research of Instructional System on Imagery of Chinese Characters

Abstract

An Instructional System on Imagery of Chinese Characters (ISICC) was designed and implemented to overcome the difficulties for foreigners in learning Chinese characters in this paper. Imagery of Chinese Characters (ICC) referred to a kind of Chinese character psychological image constructed to discover the relationship between character structure and character meaning according to the theory of etymology and modern life grounds, using the character structure as the point of departure. The construction of the corpus of ICC was a core to ISICC. The ICC items of the corpus were gathered from teachers in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and the foreign learners. It didn't pursue whether consistent with the Chinese character's origin or not. The ICC items displayed according to the priority which would be evaluated by social voting, not by experts. In addition to the common organizing methods of pinyin, stroke, but also we presented a new three-level Chinese characters components expansion approach, as is useful to associative memory for foreigners.