Chinese Take-In provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback. It helps beginning learners improve their listening comprehension.
This is a program to practice listening comprehension. The specific target students use the textbook of Practical Chinese Reader Book I (beginning Chinese learners).
Chinese Take-In provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback. It helps beginning learners improve their listening comprehension.
This is a program to practice listening comprehension. The specific target students use the textbook of Practical Chinese Reader Book I (beginning Chinese learners).
Chinese Take-In provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback.
Type of Material:
Web based online listening comprehension drills.
Recommended Uses:
Vocabulary and listening comprehension based on lessons 1-30 of the Practical Chinese Reader (PCR) textbook.
Technical Requirements:
No specific requirements. Works under regular web environment.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The goal of this learning material is to help first-year/beginning learners of Chinese increase their listening skills through self-paced listening comprehension quizzes.
Target Student Population:
First year/beginning learners of Chinese, especially students using the Practical Chinese Reader (PCR) textbook.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The material provides supplemental vocabulary and audio files to enable learners/students to hone their character recognition and listening skills. Each lesson is accompanied by an image of Chinese cultural site. Each quiz consists of ten multiple-choice questions to test learners' understanding of the contents of the audios.
Good sound quality. Compatible to the textbook. Easy to use.
Concerns:
The speed of the audios seems a little too fast for beginning/first-year learners.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Learners can practice vocabulary and grammar through the quizzes. They get immediate feedback after they choose the correct or wrong answer. If they choose the wrong answer, they have the option of revealing the text to show where they misjudged the words they heard. Additionally, they can also listen to the audio again while reading the text. The text is presented in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
Concerns:
The text would be more useful if it is accompanied by English gloss. An explanation for each wrong answer would also help learners to understand the reason for making the mistake.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The site is well designed with relevant graphics and attractive colors. It is also extremely easy to navigate. In particular, the lesson numbers are cleverly arranged within a square adjacent to different photos of Chinese culture that appear as one clicks on the different lesson numbers. Users can also read "About the Site" to understand more about this learning material.
Concerns:
The Chinese characters presented in each vocabulary list appear to be links. However, all the links lead the user to blank Web pages.
Other Issues and Comments:
None
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