Radical Awareness Among L2 Chinese Learners: Chinese vs. Non-Chinese Spheres

華語二語者的部件覺知之比較研究：漢字圈vs.非漢字圈

陳冠元(Kuan-yuan Francis Chen) ； 陳純音(Chun-yin Doris Chen)

《臺大華語文學習與科技》 2卷1期 (2022/06) Pp. 31-65

https://doi.org/10.30050/CLLT.202206_2(1).0002

摘要

The present study aims to investigate the awareness of radicals by the learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) from Chinese- and non-Chinese character spheres. Three comprehension tasks (i.e., a character decision task, a character meaning task and a semantic cueing function task were conducted to examine 40 participants' implicit knowledge of Chinese radicals and their use of such knowledge in identifying legal characters as well as in retrieving the meanings of unfamiliar characters. The results show remarkable performances in the identification of ill-formed target characters by the L2 participants indicating that they had the awareness of radicals in terms of their positional regularity. In addition, the performance in character meaning inference was crucially dependent upon character transparency. Moreover, the facilitation of context was attested in meaning retrieval of unfamiliar characters. In most cases, the supplement of contextual clues was helpful for the participants, especially for those in the non-Chinese-character sphere low-intermediate group.

關鍵字

second language acquisition ； character recognition ； semantic radical awareness ； Mandarin Chinese

並列摘要

本研究旨在探討以中文為第二語言的漢字圈與非漢字圈學習者於漢字部件覺識上的比較。透過三項理解測驗（漢字字形辨識測驗、漢字字義判斷測驗及語義提示功能測驗）來測試40位受試者是否具備漢字部件的隱性知識及其運用該知識判斷符合結構規則的漢字及提取不熟悉字詞的字義。研究發現，所有實驗組均在不符合部件位置的非漢字判別上辨識率最高，此結果顯示出所有的受試者均擁有部件位置規則的覺識。此外，亦發現受試者在提取字義的表現取決於漢字的透明度。再者，語境的加入有助於受試者提取漢字字義，大部分受試者在句子脈絡中的整體表現均優於字詞脈絡，此效應對非漢字圈中低級受試者的表現影響尤為顯著。

並列關鍵字

第二語言習得 ； 漢字識別 ； 意符覺識 ； 中文

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