Characters and Words: Understanding the Acquisition of Chinese Vocabulary

       Since this paper was requested by many teachers despite of many blemishes it still has, I uploaded it here to share with all interested teachers.  Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Author: John Jing-hua Yin, Ph.D. 

Email: john.yin@uvm.edu

Other information:
Paper presented at the CLTA Annual Meeting at Salt Lake City on Nov. 22-24, 2002.

Download: Presentation file (PowerPoint File)
Note:  the Chinese characters are encoded in GB in the file. 

Home Page: www.uvm.edu/~chinese

Table of Contents

Title Slide : Characters and Words: Understanding the Acquisition of Chinese Vocabulary

Slide 1: What is vocabulary?

Slide 2: What is a word?

Slide 3: What does it mean to know a word?

Slide 4: What does it mean to know a word?

Slide 5: What is a Chinese word?

Slide 6: Chinese Words in the Vocabulary Conspectus of HSK

Slide 7: Monosyllabic Words vs. Multisyllabic Words in HSK Vocabulary

Slide 8: PPT Slide

Slide 9: Three Lists

Slide 10: Most frequently used Chinese characters

Slide 11: Words acquired by a kid at 18 months old

Slide 12: Basic Chinese characters & radicals

Slide 13: Comparisons of the Three Lists

Slide 14: What characters does PCR Lessons 1-15 have?

Slide 15: Some thoughts as the conclusion