{"id":22935,"date":"2022-07-03T17:09:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T11:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=22935"},"modified":"2022-07-03T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T11:24:55","slug":"new-study-suggest-handwriting-practice-facilitates-early-letter-categorization-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/new-study-suggest-handwriting-practice-facilitates-early-letter-categorization-ability\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Suggest handwriting practice facilitates early letter categorization ability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A large body of research<\/a> supports the critical role of handwriting in reading, both in alphabetic languages and Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the study by Dr. Amelia Xu Zhengye, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Special Education and Counselling (SEC), Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), 144 second- and 150 fourth-grade Chinese students were recruited to complete a Chinese character-learning task to explore the specific contributions of sensory-motor components including visual, motor and haptic systems, of handwriting to Chinese character learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were three sessions in the study: pretest, training, and posttest. The pretest was performed two weeks before the training and the posttest was conducted immediately after the training session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After matching for age, nonverbal IQ, and a series of cognitive-linguistic skills, each child was assigned to one of four training conditions (i.e., reading, visual processing, air-writing, or handwriting) to investigate the specific contributions of sensory-motor components of handwriting to Chinese character learning. In the reading condition, the children were shown images of characters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the other three conditions, they were shown animations of how a given character is written. The participants were asked to view the animations in the visual processing condition, whereas in the air-writing and handwriting conditions they were asked, respectively, to follow the animations and write the Chinese characters with their index fingers in the air or write the Chinese characters with a pen on paper. They were asked to name the learned characters in the posttest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both air-writing and handwriting elicited a larger training effect than reading or visual processing, but there was no difference between the air-writing and handwriting groups. Also, no age differences were found in either the air-writing or handwriting conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the children in the air-writing and handwriting groups performed better than those in the reading (control) and visual processing groups, but there was no significant difference between air-writing and handwriting, nor between reading and visual processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the visual-processing condition, displaying characters with their stroke-order information, did not provide any extra benefit over the control condition displaying the overall shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, both the air-writing and handwriting conditions provided greater enhancements than the reading condition, suggesting that participating had a better learning effect than passive viewing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, the difference between air-writing and visual processing was significant, implying that the specific movements related to orthographic formation have a unique contribution to the relationship between writing and reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the similar training effects of the handwriting and air-writing conditions suggest that the haptic processing of handwriting per se did not lead to any unique reading improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study provides a direction for researchers and educators to examine how to use the different sensory-motor components of handwriting in learning and teaching practice to enhance the effectiveness of Chinese character learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study was conducted together with Dr. Liu Duo, Associate Professor at SEC, EdUHK; and Professor Joshi R. Malatesha at Texas A&M University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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