The Recognition of Chinese Compound Words by Native English- and Korean-speaking Learners of Chinese
| dc.contributor.author | Sun, Jing | |
| dc.contributor.author | Luo, Xiao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pae, Hye K. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-15T22:38:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-15T22:38:46Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2024 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-11-18 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Challenges in reading Chinese as a foreign language involve the large proportion of two-character compound words which have complex intra-word morphological structures and scriptal distance between learner’s native language (L1) and Chinese as a second or foreign language. This study extended a previous investigation on the processing of Chinese coordinative compound words to various morphological structures to examine L1 effects and intra-word structure effects during compound word recognition and identified difficulty order associated with the different structures of Chinese compound words. Native English- and Korean-speaking learners of Chinese (n = 25, n = 13, respectively), along with native Chinese readers participated (n = 29). Both learners’ L1s and the morphological structures of compound words exerted significant main effects on compound word recognition. For non-native readers, the Korean group processed the five structures of compounds faster but less accurately than did the English-speaking counterpart. For both non-native groups, the subject-predicate structure was the most difficult to recognize, followed by the verb-complement structure. | |
| dc.format | Article | |
| dc.format.extent | 22 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sun, J., Luo, X., & Pae, H. K. (2024). The Recognition of Chinese Compound Words by Native English- and Korean-speaking Learners of Chinese. Reading in a Foreign Language, 36(1), 1-22. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67476 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1539-0578 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67476 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center | |
| dc.publisher | Center for Language & Technology | |
| dc.rights.license | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | reading Chinese, reading Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese as a second language, Chinese compound words, foreign language reading||word recognition, character recognition intra-word morphological structures, L1 reading effects on L2 reading, English learners of Chinese, Korean learners of Chinese | |
| dc.title | The Recognition of Chinese Compound Words by Native English- and Korean-speaking Learners of Chinese | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dcterms.type | Text | |
| prism.endingpage | 22 | |
| prism.number | 1 | |
| prism.publicationname | Reading in a Foreign Language | |
| prism.startingpage | 1 | |
| prism.volume | 36 |