mChinese - Using mobile app to assist non-Chinese speaking students to learn Chinese vocabulary

Abstract

New vocabulary can best be learnt when they occurs authentically in rich and meaningful contexts. Mobile learning devices can provide an excellent tool for the learners to capture such language occurrences in their daily life. The platform is developed firstly to provide simple-to-use interface for students and teachers to exchange such language instances captured in their daily life so as to expand each others’ learning. Besides, the platform also allows flexible organization of these vocabulary items to highlight important regularities and variations in the language. In the future development, the platform can also provide simple interface for the learners to break down of the vocabulary items into their constituting components, and the combination of the components or vocabulary items into new phrases and messages, and to play interactive games among the learners.