| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 104 === Computerized visual perception assessment tool for Chinese characters structures of preschool children ability of relevant factors
Abstract
During the stage when preschool children encounter Chinese characters, they memorize and learn Chinese characters by visual reception and process, and as they accumulate more experience by encountering more Chinese characters, they develop the ability of distinguishing between Chinese character structures. However, there are not many relevant researches done to examine preschool children’s abilities of distinguishing Chinese characters. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to understand what affects preschool children’s distinguishing abilities. The subjects of this research are kindergarten students who are in the middle and senior classes. Using non-random sampling method, 370 subjects from five different kindergartens were chosen for the research. Their ages range from 4 to 6 years old. The average age is 4.72, while the standard deviation is .63. “Computerized visual perception assessment” is used as the tool for this study. The assessments were conducted twice over a one-year interval. The test results were analyzed in the methods of descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, and one-way analysis of variance.
The findings of this study are as follows
1.) There is no difference of children's gender on the performance of Basic strokes, Single-component characters, Parallel Compound characters, Vertical Compound characters and total score in the test.
2.) In 2013, 5 and 6 year-old preschool children have better distinguish ability than 4 year-old in their Total score in the test. There’s no significant difference of progress between the age of 5 and 6 year-olds, and the test result in 2014, 6 and 7 year-old preschool children have better performance than 5 year-old in their Total score in the test. Therefore, the Total score varies when the age increases.
3.) There is difference on the Primary caregivers’ education level. Children whose caregivers have university degrees or higher have higher scores than children whose caregivers only have high school, vocational school, or lower education level.
4.) There was no difference between children who had writing exercise in Basic strokes, Single-component characters, Parallel Compound characters, Vertical Compound characters and children who did not.
5.) Children’s progress in one year includes Basic strokes, Single-component characters, Parallel Compound characters, Vertical Compound characters. They have significant progress in all these factors. In fact, 4 year-old preschool children have better results in their progress than 5 and 6 year-olds in the Basic strokes test. Therefore, 4 to 5 year-olds not only have significant improvement, it is also the fastest growing stage of Chinese character perception.
Preschool children’s ability of distinguishing Chinese characters will influence their future abilities of literacy, reading comprehension, and writing. The most significant stage for development is during age 4 to 5. In addition, the educational background of the primary caregivers have impact on the quality of guided learning and the development of literacy in future.
Keywords: Preschool children, Computerized visual perception assessment tool for Chinese
characters structures, Basic strokes, Single-component characters, Parallel compound
characters, Vertical compound characters
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