Naming single Chinese characters
The children were asked to name a total of 24 single Chinese characters that were selected from a storybook about the Chinese Zodiac. The one-character words were used as the basis for the lessons (see below). Twelve characters were to be named in German and 12 in Chinese. The characters were presented at the smallest font size that was still legible. In addition, typefaces in calligraphic styles were not adopted to avoid non-essential pixels and to provide simpler visualization of the characters.The Chinese characters were set in the font SimHei (26 pt), which corresponded to 1.8° (width and height) at a viewing distance of 25 cm. The typeface and font size were used after consultation with native speakers from the China Center Tuebingen (CCT) and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Tuebingen. A dummy experiment was performed with two native speakers of Mandarin Chinese before the implementation of the experiment.