A Study on the Chinese Character Education Method for Beginners in Chinese Character: Focused on the Strokes of Chinese characters

The purpose of this article was to explore new ways of teaching Chinese characters based on the cognitive patterns that learners have in advance. To this end, we identified the cognitive patterns of beginners who first encountered Chinese characters and presented teaching Chinese character and contents to suit their cognitive styles. The learning habits of most beginners who first encountered Chinese characters is familiar with the learning habits of acquiring Hangeul and English. It is very difficult to expand the learning habits by adjusting the existing learning habits. Based on these points, the school devised a way to start Chinese character education in the existing learning habits framework. The method is to start Chinese character education by using strokes. The stroke can serve as the alphabet of Hangeul and the alphabet of English, making it a material for learners to easily access Chinese characters with a priori learning habits. In this article, the author suggested that strokes be classified into 20 categories and each stroke should be named and used for teaching Chinese character. It is important to determine the learner's step-by-step learning according to the curriculum of education. It could be a way of teaching Chinese characters to teach them first when they first start Chinese characters. Still, strokes education is still unfamiliar as an educational method for Chinese characters. However, we hope that it will be a way for beginners who are new to Chinese characters to gain easier access to learning them.