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Due to the proliferation of technology, the change of social environment and the innovation of curriculum, Taiwanese students have less and less time to write in papers. What's worse, Taiwanese students only write in papers when they have homework. Because of students' word recognition on the decrease, their hand writings are careless. Also, they have more incorrect character typos. This phenomenon also appears when typing characters on the computers. Most of students adopt phonetic input method to type characters. Phonetic input method emphasizes the recognition of phonetic value of a character. However, it ignores the variant of the form of a character. Synonyms of Chinese characters are common. If students do not pay attention on choosing the correct words when typing on computers, character typos arise spontaneously. This study has investigated this problem. The author used radical recognition instruction to teach students new words. Moreover, the author adopted Cangjie input method to prompt the familiarization of students' word recognition. The goal of this study is to increase students' knowledge of words. Participants were 26 grade sixth students. They were taught by Shaped tertiary structure teaching. They also practiced multimedia、computer word-entry method. Students learned two abilities- the recognition of Chinese characters and the application of typing words on computers. Then, the study discussed the advantages of this teaching approach. The results of the study showed that: 1 the ability of students' word recognition improved significantly when usingradical recognition instruction and Cangjie input method at the same time. 2 using Font dismantling's Cangjie input method to type on computers promoted students' familiarization of the form of characters. 3 adopting radical recognition instructionwith Cangjie input method helped students recognize words. 4 using radical recognition instruction with Cangjie input method increased students' motivation toward learning.
Key words:Radical recognition instruction Cangjie input method Chinese characters teaching
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