Students’ negative perception of teachers’ behaviors was found to be related to higher foreign language anxiety in the classroom (Noels et al., 1999). Moreover, the different writing and phonological system (Elkhafaifi, 2005) compared to the native language and the unknown linguistic and ...
The three East-Asian scripts—Chinese (characters and Pinyin), Japanese (multi-scripts), and Korean (alphabetic Hangul)—are discussed. Under each script, a brief historical account of the given writing system, the key features of the script, and the strengths and weaknesses as a script are ...
Instead, though in later styles of the Arabic script <r> and <d> could be confused, it was probably not so in early styles, where these two letters had a markedly different form, and <r> could rather be confused with final <n>.3030 For <r/z>, <d/ḏ> and <-n> in the ...
Chapter 5 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Writing Systems: All East-Asian but Different Scripts Abstract The three East-Asian scripts—Chinese (characters and Pinyin), Japanese (multi-scripts), and Korean (alphabetic Hangul)—are discussed. Under each script, a brief historical account of ...