TITLE:
Concept of Visual Representation into Calligraphy in Overseas Chinese Language Instruction
AUTHORS:
Yanrong Li, Yucheng Shen, Hui Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Chinese Calligraphy, Concepts of Pictorial Representation, Teaching of Chinese Written Language Overseas
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.10,
October
31,
2023
ABSTRACT: The development of Chinese calligraphy and Chinese characters has a deep-seated relationship. Chinese calligraphy contains an essential and traditional humanistic spirit which is representative of China’s rich culture. Currently, as the desire to learn Chinese is expanding rapidly worldwide, this paper considers how the pictorial representation of Chinese calligraphy can assist language teaching. Based on a literature review, teaching observation, and analysis of cultural images, the authors propose integrating pictographic concepts into calligraphy to develop another approach for digital instructional methods in teaching Chinese language. This study is to investigate the impact of implementing tablet-based teaching of calligraphy in elementary schools on calligraphy learning effectiveness, learning attitude, and learning attention. The results were as follows: 1) The experimental group implementing tablet-based calligraphy teaching performed better than the control group implementing traditional teaching on learning effectiveness. The improvement in learning effectiveness was significant; 2) The experimental group implementing tablet-based calligraphy teaching showed better calligraphy learning attitude compared to the control group with traditional teaching. The enhancement of calligraphy learning attitude overall was significant; 3) The experimental group implementing tablet-based calligraphy teaching surpassed the control group implementing traditional teaching on calligraphy skill concentration. The increase in calligraphy skill concentration was significant overall.