Title :
A Study on Japanese Students (Intermediate Level) Reading Chinese Texts With or Without Marks for Word Boundaries
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Int. Educ. & Exchange, Tianjin Normal Univ., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
By comparing the Eye Movement on data of Japanese students reading Chinese texts with or without marks for word boundaries, the researcher has found that: (1) To Japanese students, the Chinese words represent more Psychological reality than Chinese characters. (2) The reading efficiency of Japanese students could be immensely improved by inserting word boundary marks. It is, therefore, suggested that when publishing Chinese textbooks intended for Japanese students, we adjust the way we do typesetting today and insert word boundary marks into the text.
Keywords :
linguistics; psychology; text analysis; Chinese characters; Chinese textbook publishing; Chinese texts; Chinese words; Japanese student reading efficiency improvement; eye movement; intermediate level Japanese students; psychology; word boundary mark insertion; Chinese Texts; Eye Movement; Japanese Students; Reading; Word Boundaries;
Conference_Titel :
Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Urumqi
DOI :
10.1109/IALP.2013.38
