Questions

Options

Quantity

Percentage

Interest on characters

Very interested

39

39%

Relatively interested

52

52%

More or less interested

8

8%

Not interested

3

3%

The Importance of Chinese Characters in Chinese Learning

Very important

54

54%

Relatively important

44

44%

More or less important

4

4%

Not important

0

0%

The Importance of Chinese Character Recognition, Reading and Writing

Character recognition is important

61

61%

Writing is important

41

41%

Do not know

0

0%

The best time to start learning Chinese characters

At the beginning

90

90%

One month later

10

10%

Half a year later

1

1%

One year later

1

1%

Difficulties encountered by students in learning Chinese characters

At the level of strokes

6

6%

At the level of character order

28

28%

At the level of wrongly written characters

30

30%

At the level of homophones

32

32%

At the level of polyphonic characters

6

6%

Others

0

0%

Methods used by students to learn characters

Copy text or new words

39

39%

watch TV or read a book

18

18%

Using the dictionary

22

22%

Ask the teacher

8

8%

Study calligraphy

3

3%

Study Chinese songs

10

10%

Others

2

2%

How often does the teachers correct students wrongly written characters

Often correct

90

90%

Rarely correct

11

11%

Do not correct

1

1%

How often does the teacher correct the stroke order

Often correct

92

92%

Rarely correct

9

9%

Do not correct

1

1%

Students’ understanding of “character creation”

Understand

32

32%

Do not really understand

61

61%

Do not understand

9

9%