Abstract: Using the dictation task,the writing processing of Chinese characters by the sixth grade children was investigated.The results show that the accuracy of writing was affected by character frequency and the grade that a character was first introduced in the textbook.Analyzing the error types under the dictation task,it was found that the most common errors were ones children replaced targets with homophonic characters,or with the characters sharing the same phonetics.There were much fewer non-character errors,especially non-characters with wrong components.It suggests that children's writing benefit from memory and repeating,also is greatly affected by the character structure awareness.

Key words: writing proccessing of chinese characters, memory, metalinguistic awareness, dictation