Save Your Strokes: Chinese Handwriting Practice Makes for Ineffective Use of Instructional Time in Second Language Classrooms

• Main Authors: Xiwen Lu (Author), Korinn S. Ostrow (Author), Neil T. Heffernan (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: SAGE Publishing, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• נושאים: article
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Handwriting practice is the most time-consuming activity for learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). CFL instructors report allocating at least one third of their course time to handwriting practice although it prevents students from engaging in meaningful communication, especially in the e...