A Study on Network and Multimedia Application to Chinese Language Acquisition

"Technology is playing an ever increasing role in foreign language education and more so for less commonly taught foreign languages like Chinese" (Zhao and Lai, 2009). Teaching and learning Chinese language with up-to-date technology aid is of vital significance nowadays. The study on the effect of network and multimedia application to Chinese language teaching and learning shows that students feel at home with this new teaching model since it is helpful to arouse students' interest in learning and to improve their learning efficiency, while quite a few problems are still persistent in the teaching aimed at developing students' learning autonomy, such as lack of consciousness of learning based on network and low abilities to learn autonomously from multimedia sources. To deal with these problems, some suggestions are put forward in the paper with typical considerations given to students' emotional factors and instructor's role in the pedagogical output and input process. Index Terms--Chinese language acquisition, computer-aid teaching and learning, Great Wall Chinese Courseware, network and multimedia approach