한자 습득이 중국어 읽기 학습 성취도에 미치는 효과 -대학교 1학년 중국어 독해 초급과정을 중심으로-

Abstract

In studying the Chinese language, it is more important than anything else to learn accurately Chinese characters that symbolize the Chinese language. If the major concern of the Chinese language education is to maximize the Chinese language capability of learners within the shortest period, the education of Chinese characters is a basic and difficult point of the Chinese language education. Reading is a linguistic function which can be approached most efficiently. This is because the learners are already seeing and reading the characters on opening books. Therefore, reading is an important linguistic function to be trained from the beginning stage of the Chinese language study. In this paper, through a survey of questionnaire, we propose that securing the ability of reading the Chinese language and the proficiency in that language is significantly dependent on the acquisition of Chinese characters. In addition, the result indicates that adopting the education of Chinese characters into the traditional reading class has a positive effect on the achievement level of learner’s performance in reading. Finally, admitting the limit of this study, more scrutinized analyses of the effects of acquisition of the Chinese characters on the vocabulary, grammatical structures, sentence comprehension, reading speed, etc. are suggested, as well as a study on how the acquisition of the Chinese characters may influence other linguistic functions when the teaching of Chinese characters is applied to the classes for listening, speaking and writing of the Chinese language.