Chinese Key Image Strategy for Android

11 things about Chinese Key Image Strategy

1. After providing basic information on writing characters, “Chinese character Key-image pictures” method is introduced to guide students’ learning from pictures to characters, characters to phrases, phrases to sentences, allowing students to acquire and strengthen Chinese writing and reading abilities.

2. This program combines learning theories with innovative teaching methods, allowing learners to look at a key-image and simultaneously connect the form and meaning of the Chinese character.

3. The key-image method makes Chinese character learning more accessible by the use of techniques based on the theories of learning and memory.

4. Study proves that, compared to traditional teaching style, this method not only greatly increases the retention of learned Chinese characters but also students’ motivation in Chinese learning.

5. To make character learning easier, this app offers an innovative, creative, and effective method incorporating the key-image method with simple games and quizzes.

6. Using the “Chinese character Key-image picture”, when learners see a character they could associate it to both the picture and its meaning.

7. Learning Chinese characters could be intimidating for most learners.

8. For example, the ""足 (meaning: foot)"" key-image itself looks like the form of the character while at the same time shows the meaning of foot.

9. ○ Systematically guide students’ learning from pictures to characters, characters to phrases, phrases to sentences.

10. The effect of “Chinese character Key-image pictures” has been supported by empirical studies.

11. Key-images adopt the “pictographic method” in which the picture is similar to the form and related to the meaning of its target character.