TY - GEN
T1 - Mobile assisted game-based Chinese character recognition
AU - Wong, Lung Hsiang
AU - Hsu, Ching Kun
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper reports on the effects of two different dynamic grouping strategies in a mobile-assisted Chinese character learning game. The game application assigns each student a component of a Chinese character through their smartphones and requires them to form groups that can assemble a legitimate Chinese character using the components held by the group members. Sixteen Primary 3 (3 rd grade) students taking Chinese as a second language (L2) class involved in the study. Video-recordings of the game and the transcriptions of focus group interviews were qualitatively analyzed. The study aims to explore the patterns of social interactions during the game, especially on the varied impacts of the two different grouping rules (allowing versus not allowing each student to join more than one group at one time) on the student game behaviors and their learning gains.
AB - This paper reports on the effects of two different dynamic grouping strategies in a mobile-assisted Chinese character learning game. The game application assigns each student a component of a Chinese character through their smartphones and requires them to form groups that can assemble a legitimate Chinese character using the components held by the group members. Sixteen Primary 3 (3 rd grade) students taking Chinese as a second language (L2) class involved in the study. Video-recordings of the game and the transcriptions of focus group interviews were qualitatively analyzed. The study aims to explore the patterns of social interactions during the game, especially on the varied impacts of the two different grouping rules (allowing versus not allowing each student to join more than one group at one time) on the student game behaviors and their learning gains.
KW - Chinese character learning
KW - Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)
KW - Game-based learning
KW - Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL)
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860449097
SN - 9786161201883
T3 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011
SP - 39
EP - 46
BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011
T2 - 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011
Y2 - 28 November 2011 through 2 December 2011
ER -