Abstract—This study aimed at applying key-image pictured-based approach to teach Chinese-characters for Chinese as foreign language learners in the environment of online classroom. It was a qusi-experiment design. 65 ages 10-12 school children from an elementary school of southern California participated in the research, 32 students in the experimental group and 33 pupils in the control group. The intervention of key-imaged pictured-based approach of teaching Chinese-characters in the online classroom was applied to the experimental class over a 15-lesson period in 3 months. The control class accepted Chinese language class without the intervention in the regular classroom in the same period of teaching schedule. The result of a detailed one-way ANCOVA demonstrated that the intervention of key-imaged pictured-based approach of teaching Chinese-characters with online environment in the experimental class contributed significant grow in vocabulary skills.

Index Terms—Key-image pictured-based approach, online classroom, Chinese-characters, Chinese as foreign language learners, school children, vocabulary skills.

Pengfei Chen is with Dhurakij Pundit University, China-ASEAN International College, 110/1-4 Prachachuen Rd. Laksi, Bangkok 10210, Thailand.
Hsuanpo Wang is with Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University. 88, Sec. 4, Tingzhou Rd., Wenshan Dist. Taipei, 116, Taiwan (email: sam710701@gmail.com).
Crystal Hsia is with San Francisco state university. 2687 42nd Ave. San Francisco, CA94112, U.S.

Cite: Pengfei Chen, Hsuanpo Wang, Crystal Hsia, "Key-Image Picture-Based Approach for Teaching Chinese Character via Online Distance Learning to Chinese as Foreign Language Learners," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 186-194, 2019.