Chinese Character Writing Practice

Project Title

Chinese Character Writing Practice

Project Leader

Xuan Han

School / Dept

LANG

Project Duration

Oct 2008 - Sept 2009

Project Description

The project aimed to :

• Provide a learning tool for the international students to learn how to write Chinese characters which they often need but there is not enough time to do in class.

• Develop basic skills in writing Chinese characters for the international students.

• Use animation to show the order in writing Chinese characters.

• Use the list of most frequently used Chinese characters used in Lang113 and 114 to serve the goal as the first step of writing Chinese characters.

• Further build up the knowledge of Chinese language for the international students.

Project Outcome

• Chinese writing animations for the most frequently used Chinese characters in LANG113 and LANG114 were developed and incorporated into the section of Chinese Character Study in the course websites for LANG113 and LANG114.
• The Chinese Character Study website was trial with MBA students from the MBA Summer Intensive Putonghua course in summer 2009. Informal verbal feedback was collected.
• The website was demonstrated and recommended to the students of LANG113 Putonghua for Non-Chinese Language Background Students I (93 students) and LANG114 Putonghua for Non-Chinese Language Background Students II (19 students) in the fall semester 2009 for self-learning. An evaluation questionnaire survey with students was conducted at the end of the semester. Individual interviews with 3 students were arranged to collect students’ feedback about the potential learning impact of the website in Dec 2009.

Status

Completed

Project Documents
(Only accessible by HKUST users)

• Project Plan
• Final Report

Adaptation

Full Project