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% |