Title: Investigation into the Effects of Orthographic Strategy in Teaching Chinese Characters to English Beginners
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Acquiring Chinese characters is a great challenge for foreign students, especially students from non-character culture background. What makes thing worse is that there are not efficient strategies in teaching Chinese characters. This essay tries to testify the efficiency of orthographic strategy by comparing it with the traditional teaching strategy on the basis of experimental studies with British university students and primary students.
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