2. Spoken Chinese

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. About the authors xv
4. Preface xvii
5. Acknowledgements xix
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Chinese 19
8. 2. Spoken Chinese 21
9. 3. Chinese characters: Hanzi 37
10. 4. Meaning representation in characters 56
11. 5. Sound representation by characters 75
12. 6. History of education and literacy in China 85
13. 7. Reforming spoken and written Chinese 112
14. 8. School, and learning to read in Chinese 130
15. Summary and conclusions 153
16. Part II. Korean 155
17. 9. Korean language 157
18. 10. Hancha: Chinese characters 172
19. 11. Han’g?l: Alphabetic syllabary 180
20. 12. Learning and using Han’g?l 199
21. 13. Why should Hancha be kept? 223
22. 14. History of education and literacy in Korea 236
23. Summary and conclusions 253
24. Part III. Japanese 255
25. 15. Japanese language 257
26. 16. Kanji: Chinese characters 271
27. 17. Kana: Japanese syllabary 284
28. 18. Rōmaji: Roman letters 294
29. 19. Why keep Kanji? 303
30. 20. History of mass literacy in Japan 322
31. 21. Learning and using Kanji and Kana 333
32. 22. The Japanese educational system 352
33. Summary and conclusions 361
34. Part IV. Common issues 255
35. 23. Eye movements and text writing in East Asia 365
36. 24. Reading and the brain 380
37. 25. East Asian students in international tests 395
38. 26. Logographic characters vs phonetic scripts 405
39. Afterthoughts 421
40. Glossary 423
41. Bibliography 439
42. Name index 463
43. Subject index 471