Abstract

This session tackles issues in teaching foreign languages on the Web. The poster presentation on course design for a Web-based third-year level Chinese reading class will address the following challenges: · creating a model for Web-based course design that will be useful to educators without advanced programming resources · designing strategies for use of the forum, or bulletin board, as a locus for several kinds of language-learning tasks · coordinating hardware and software so that students working with various system configurations can all communicate in written Chinese · selecting a combination of Web-based tools that suits our needs · making use of students' background knowledge of the real world and of the target language as a jumping-off point for each lesson · structuring lessons to conform to natural reading behaviors · providing a combination of group-based activities and individual, off-line activities with opportunities for reflection and reaction

Citation

Lu-Chen, J.Y., Fleming, S. & Chou, C.C. (1999). Reading Chinese Together: Uses of the Web Forum for Individualized and Group-based Language Learning. In Proceedings of WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (p. 1675). Honolulu, Hawaii: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved April 23, 2021 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/7590/.

© 1999 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Keywords

• Languages
• poster presentation
• System Configurations
• web-based course