Using radicals in teaching Chinese characters to second language learners

Psychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 243-251

  Taft, Marcus ^a   Chung, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Radicals; Second language learning; Teaching orthography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033262911     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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