USING MNEMONICS TO LEARN CHINESE CHARACTERS

Abstract

The paper is devoted to finding an effective method of memorizing Chinese characters. The objects of the study are different methods and techniques that are used in the study of Chinese characters. At present more and more people see the practical significance of studying the Chinese language, but the process of studying is highly complicated by the problem of memorizing characters. So it has been tasked to find an efficient algorithm for memorizing characters using mnemonic techniques. The proposed method is based on the knowledge of Chinese characters graphemes: it is offered to split a character into its constituent parts, imagine an association to each part, and then bind the association and the meaning of the word in the whole image. The efficacy of the technique has been tested experimentally. It was found that the respondents who used the mnemonic method, have higher efficiency of memorizing characters in the long-term memory, then of the respondents of the control group.

Keywords

• chinese, mnemonics