Promoting Language Competence and Cultural Awareness Through Blogging in a Chinese Language Course
Explore how to enhance language skills and cultural understanding through blogging in a Chinese language course led by Zhou Hongfen. Training students using real-world content-based learning and interactive tools. Participants include undergraduates and language tutors, engaging in course blogs for writing practice and cultural exchange. Analysis of blog categories reveals diverse topics like China's societal issues, holidays, and medicine. Surveys show positive student feedback on vocabulary, language improvement, and cultural enrichment.
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Promoting language competence and cultural awareness through blogging in a Chinese language course Zhou Hongfen Hongfen.zhou@manchester.ac.uk
Training students successfully in a global world content based learning cultural awareness for the preparation for real-world language use
CONTENTS AIM PARTICIPANTS COURSE BLOG QUESTIONAIRE FINDINGS
AIM To explore closely how to use course blog as an educational tool in an interactive way for the development of learners language competence and cultural awareness Writing skills, Cultural awareness , Course blog
PARTICIPANTS Undergraduates in intermediate advanced Chinese course Language tutor acting as a participant and facilitator All students having Chinese related experience
COURSE BLOG Each participant could post their entries and leave comments in one blog to share with others All entries are displayed in one page Task writing & free writing
THE ANALYSIS ON THE CATEGORIES OF COURSE BLOG Free Writing Task Writing Website recommendation Female social status in China and in your home country Holiday diary Chinese new year and Christmas Hot topic Learning burden News One child policy Notice board Chinese medicine and Western medicine
THE ANALYSIS ON THE CATEGORIES OF COURSE BLOG 50 45 45 40 35 30 25 20 14 13 15 7 10 4 3 5 0
QUESTIONAIRE Pre-survey Post-survey No one used blog for personal use or educational purpose before 85% students like to read blog entries and 28% student like to write blog entries, 57% students keep neutral attitude to the blog entries writing Hope to get interesting and useful information from course blog 71% students agreed that learned new vocabularies, improved their language and enriched their cultural knowledge about China Learn more culture Get feedback about their essay from course blog to learn more phrases and culture 71% students keep the neutral attitude for gaining diverse cultural perspectives by using course blog 57% students feel their communication skills increased
FINDINGS Using course blog effectively improved students language competence The course blog helped students to improve their cultural awareness, but its function of developing students diverse cultural perspectives was not as effective as expected Course blog should be used together with class group discussions or debates
