Hong Davies

School: XJS Chinese and Culture School

Language: Chinese

Year Level: 7

The Value of ICT

for

Intercultural Chinese Language Learning and Teaching

Context

My Students• Chinese background – ABC/new migrants. • Diverse language skills and levels.• Parents speaking different dialects.• Day school year levels from year 6 to year 8.

My Area of Investigation• To investigate the adequacy of ICT as an integrated tool for intercultural Chinese language learning and teaching.• To evaluate the effectiveness of ICT for stimulating students’ interest in engaging in intercultural communication.

What did I do?

• Designed a Movie Making Project (MMP). - Based on Lesson 12 A Small Soccer Match in our textbook. - With the aim of fostering purposeful language use.

• Encouraged each student to produce a short film of our class soccer match, with Chinese commentary and English subtitles. - Involving connections across texts and contexts, interaction with others, and negotiation of a meeting point between two cultures.

• Assessed each completed movie and provided comprehensible and accurate feedback.

• Held an Award Presentation, at which four awards were presented (Panda Award). - Best Sound Editing; Best Film Editing; - Best English Subtitles; Best Commentary

• Asked students to complete the Feedback Questionnaire for MMP. - Promoting critical reflection on intercultural Chinese language learning and teaching.

What did I do? (Cont.)

Winner of Best Commentary

What did I learn?

Connection to the principles for intercultural language learning – Active construction, Making connections, Social interaction, Reflection and Responsibility

(http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/alplp/pdf/ph2ptpt.pdf) .

• MMP did make learning purposeful, active, interactive and challenging.

• MMP did support critical reflection on intercultural Chinese language learning and teaching.

• MMP did encourage my students to take responsibility for their own learning.

• MMP did involve the stages of awareness-raising, experimentation, production and feedback.

• MMP did inspire me to further explore the magic power of ICT as a stimulating

tool for intercultural Chinese language learning.

What did I learn? (Cont.)

Connection to the Profession Standards

Language pedagogy - Technology for language learning and communication

The success of MMP has proved that,

• ‘ICT has the potential to change the way children learn language, learn about language and learn to use language; as well as the potential to actually construct the learning that children experience’ (PSP 2008 Module 5, p24).

• By creating ICT learning opportunities, I can ‘identify and connect with students’ life worlds to enhance their meaningful engagement with language learning’ (PSP 2008 Module 5, p24).

最佳赛事解说 /Best Commentary第一提名 /First Nominee

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