A study of pictographs in Shuowen Jiezi and their application to the teaching of modern Chinese characters

Abstract “Shuowen Jiezi” provides a systematic interpretation of hieroglyphic characters, which provides a rich teaching resource for the learning of modern Chinese characters. This paper proposes a strategy for the integration of “Shuowen Jiezi” with modern Chinese character teaching by plowing deeply into the value of “Shuowen Jiezi” in modern Chinese character teaching. Designing teaching experiments to study the effect of its application in modern Chinese character teaching. Dismantle the teaching methods based on “Shuowen Jiezi” and explore the importance of multimedia-assisted teaching in it. Synthesize the immediate posttest and delayed posttest performance data to verify the teaching effectiveness of the teaching method based on “Shuowen Jiezi”. Analyze the necessity of integrating multimedia technology into the modern Chinese character classroom as an auxiliary means by combining the feedback of the quiz scores and the results of the questionnaire survey. The results showed that in the immediate post-test part of the teaching experiment, the correct rates of “word recognition”, “word fill-in-the-blank”, “word explanation” and “word expansion” in experimental group B were 65%, 85%, 72.5% and 95%, respectively, and the correct rates in the control group were 55%, 62.5%, 67.5% and 57.5%, respectively. However, in the post-test session, the scores of the students in both groups decreased to varying degrees. Experimental group A still had the most number of category A’s in the delayed posttest session and the number of category C’s remained the same. And the most number of category B in experimental group B is still the most number of category B, and the number of category C increased by 15 percentage points. Satisfaction with the traditional teaching mode in experimental group B and control group is 26.25%, and experimental group A’s satisfaction with the multimedia-assisted teaching mode reaches 82.5%.