Book Chapter Published

A Few Thoughts About How to Learn a Few Thousand Characters

Pelzl, E. (2024). A Few Thoughts About How to Learn a Few Thousand Characters. In C. Chu, M. D. Coss, & P. N. Zhang (Eds.), Transforming Hanzi Pedagogy in the Digital Age: Theory, Research, and Practice, 254-257. Routledge.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003285779-20

Abstract

Psycholinguist and experienced Mandarin teacher Eric Pelzl advocates minimizing the emphasis on hand-writing characters in Chinese language learning, prioritizing reading and writing through typing, proposing techniques like variability and visual search, considering hand-writing as one tool among many in the Hanzi learning process.

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