An Interactive Mobile Learning Platform for Teaching and Learning Chinese Language in Secondary School Environment

S. C. Ng, Andrew K. Lui, S. H. Ngao

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Abstract

With the popularity of smart phones and mobile devices, mobile applications have been reached out to the field of education. Mobile learning not only promotes the interaction between teachers and students, but also improves the students' motivation to learn independently. This paper presents the use of a mobile learning platform to enhance the teaching and learning effectiveness for Chinese Language in a secondary school environment. The mobile application helps students get involved in classroom lessons through immediate interaction. It helps teachers monitor the learning progress and the performance of an individual student. The mobile learning platform involves a news board for announcement of updates news, a discussion board for discussing the academic issues, a quiz system for generating and delivery of multiple-choice and short questions, a scoreboard for displaying the scores of assessments and a whiteboard acted as a synchronized tool of discussion and survey page from the server.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKnowledge Sharing through Technology - 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2013, Revised Selected Papers
Pages135-147
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2013 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 10 Jul 201311 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume407 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period10/07/1311/07/13

Keywords

  • mobile learning applications
  • secondary schools
  • teaching and learning Chinese Language

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