The Effect of Instant Message on Chinese Character Handwriting Among Teens: Pinyin Input Experience as a Compensating Role

Chen, Jingjun; Yuan, Xiaocong; Wan, Lei; Rong, Luo

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“…Xu et al (2020) found that junior high school students’ use of Pinyin as a digital writing tool during Internet use could “shelter” its direct negative effect on Chinese character handwriting ability through the positive mediation of Pinyin input proficiency. Chen et al (2021) also found that Pinyin input experience played a positive mediating role in the prediction of handwriting Chinese character performance by instant messaging (IM). This suggests that the use of Pinyin input method is beneficial to teens’ Chinese character writing.…”

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“…Word spelling test Chen et al (2021) In each word, one word was missing, "kè zhàn 客 ()"; in a sentence, the word to be spelt was missing, "His face yáng yì () had a heartfelt smile on it. "…”

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“…While Vella (2014) found a negative effect of chatting on spelling performance among Maltese Secondary School students, generally the higher the frequency of chatting is, the lower the literacy score is. Chen et al (2021) noted that, if just considering the frequency or time of IM/texting, there was a significant negative correlation between literacy skills and IM/texting. However, the use of textism, an abbreviated language style, in online communication appears to improve literacy skills, as Plester et al (2009) found the positive correlation between the use of text message abbreviations and spelling ability among 88 British 10-12-year-old children.…”

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“…So far, a large number of studies have focused on the relationship between Internet use and reading, but few studies have focused on the relationship between Internet use and Chinese character spelling ( Xu et al, 2020 ; Chen et al, 2021 ). For Chinese children, the relationship between Internet use and writing is complicated.…”

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“…When Chinese children engage in Internet activities, they will use Pinyin input method to type Chinese characters when it comes to doing online homework, sending messages, etc., which is completely different from English typing. Studies ( Xu et al, 2020 ; Chen et al, 2021 ) show that, the use of Pinyin input method is beneficial to Chinese character spelling. In addition, Chinese children can also use net-speak in Internet communication.…”

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Internet use predicts Chinese character spelling performance of junior high school students: multiple mediating roles of pinyin input proficiency and net-speak experience

Luo,

Peng,

Chen

2023

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To examine the complex relationship between Internet use experience and character spelling performance among Chinese junior high school students, the study explored the multiple mediating roles of Pinyin input proficiency and net-speak experience. A total of 447 Chinese junior high school students aged 12–15 years old completed the Internet Use Experience and Pinyin Input Proficiency Assessment, the Net-speak Experience Questionnaire and the Chinese Spelling Test. The results showed that: (1) All investigated variables were significantly correlated with each other, but there was no direct relationship between Internet use and Chinese spelling performance. (2) Pinyin input proficiency and net-speak experience play a chain mediating role in the relationship between Internet use and Chinese character spelling performance. Teens’ Internet use experience indirectly and positively predicted Chinese character spelling performance through the mediation of Pinyin input method use and net-speak experience. The implication of this study is that Chinese children should be guided to engage in Internet activities that require Pinyin typing and use net-speak creatively in order to promote the traditional Chinese character spelling skills when instructing teenagers to engage in Internet activities.

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Internet use predicts Chinese character spelling performance of junior high school students: multiple mediating roles of pinyin input proficiency and net-speak experience

Luo,

Peng,

Chen

2023

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The Influence of Technology to Hand Writing Chinese Character Ability

Ying,

Chandra,

Susilo

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E3S Web Conf.

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Nowadays students mostly used a pinyin input method to study Chinese, which had adverse effects on their Chinese character writing skills. The research method using qualitative method, where the researcher gave two types of tasks to 58 students, some of whom used the pinyin input method and some who did not. According to the findings, there are 67.25% of the students (38 out of 58) making errors when writing by hand. These errors included 47.44% of errors related to similarities between Chinese characters, which could be categorized into three types: word formation similarities (5%), character component similarities (15.25%), and single letter similarities (27.11%). Additionally, 25% of the errors were sound equation errors, such as “�” as “_f” (“shì”). Furthermore, 27% of the errors were related to the formation of new Chinese characters. When the students used the pinyin input method, the percentage of errors decreased significantly to 25.86%, most of the errors made using this method were due to word selection errors (60%) and vowel errors (40%). The research suggests that using the pinyin input method may have a negative impact on students’ motivation to write Chinese characters, which, in turn, can affect their handwriting skills.

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The Effect of Instant Message on Chinese Character Handwriting Among Teens: Pinyin Input Experience as a Compensating Role

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Internet use predicts Chinese character spelling performance of junior high school students: multiple mediating roles of pinyin input proficiency and net-speak experience

Internet use predicts Chinese character spelling performance of junior high school students: multiple mediating roles of pinyin input proficiency and net-speak experience

The Influence of Technology to Hand Writing Chinese Character Ability

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