dc.contributor.author | Wang, Yuping | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-14T05:50:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-14T05:50:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1442438X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/121511 | |
dc.description.abstract | While much second language teaching and learning has benefited from the employment of multimedia, its application is still relatively new to the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language, not to mention any comprehensive research in this area. In other words, there still exists an empirical gap between theories of CALL (Computer Assisted/Aided Language Learning) and its application in the area of Chinese language teaching. This paper is intended to bridge this gap. It is set against a background of research into the needs and problems of students studying Chinese, to be more precise, it addresses the problems that students of Chinese language face in learning Chinese characters.
To solve these problems, I developed Chinchar (short for Chinese Characters), a CALL package for teaching Chinese characters. Prior to the development, an evaluation was performed by Farguhar, Wang and Trevaskes (1996), to elicit students' perceptions of both traditional and multimedia methods of teaching and learning Chinese characters; a Needs Assessment was also carried out to determine whether there was a need for such a CALL package. I then trialed Chinchar with students at Griffith University in 1997, and designed and administered two sets of survey questionnaires. The first questionnaire (later referred as Survey 1, as opposed to Survey 2) was administered before trialling Chinchar, focusing on the difficulties in learning Chinese characters perceived by the students. The one after the trial of Chinchar (Survey 2) elicited students' perceptions of the role of multimedia in learning Chinese characters and its effectiveness. Due to the limited scope of this paper, only some of the Survey 2 results will be discussed in detail. The “fit” between computers and character learning will not be discussed here as it has been dealt with by Chappell. Instead, the paper will explore the design and features of Chinchar and some of the results of survey 2 in order to shed light on the following question: In what way has Chinchar helped to solve the problems of learning Chinese characters? | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | University of Queensland, Centre for Language Teaching and Research | |
dc.publisher.place | Australia | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Call-Ej Online | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 1 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Specialist Studies in Education | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Linguistics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1303 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 2004 | |
dc.title | Learning Chinese Characters Through Multimedia | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Wang, Yuping | |