ICT and Chinese Language Education: the e·Chinese Database and its Potential for Teaching
Paoliello, Antonio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Rovira-Esteva, Sara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Vargas-Urpi, Mireia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Casas-Tost, Helena (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Data:	2023
Resum:	Technologies are ever-present in most aspects of our daily lives, second/foreign language education being no exception. Digital tools have greatly enhanced the teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) as well, and they have gone as far as replacing - in some cases - traditional teaching-learning models. In this new socio-educational context, it is not always easy to identify the most useful and appropriate resources for each CFL learner profile and learning stage; moreover, evaluating their quality and suitability can also prove challenging as neither all teachers nor students have acquired digital literacy. Faced with this situation, the TXICC Research Group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has created e·Chinese, an open-access, quadrilingual database (English, Spanish, Catalan and Chinese), with the aim of gathering a variety of digital resources for both teachers and learners of Chinese. Before being included, all of them have been carefully tested, described and evaluated by a team of up to four experts. The database, which is dynamic and constantly updated, at present includes more than 300 items. Firstly, through this presentation, we aim to explain the working methodology behind the database and outline the type of items it contains. Secondly, we will present some of the resources that made it to the public version of the database and pay special attention to their possible use inside and outside the classroom. We will do so by presenting four very diverse case studies which have been chosen in order to give the audience glimpses of the wide array of resources contained in e·Chinese. In choosing them, we have focused on four different aspects: the first centers on a linguistic competence (pronunciation); the second on a linguistic variety (classical Chinese); the third on resources available on a specific type of social media platform (Instagram); and the fourth on a software format (plugin). By means of these case studies, we will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each of them in connection with the teaching and learning of certain specific features of the Chinese language. Lastly, we will reflect on the importance of digital resources in CFL education and the benefits they can bring to the teaching practice. We hope this presentation can offer food for thought on how new and disruptive ways of learning can be fruitfully integrated in the traditional Chinese language classroom.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Contribució a congrés
Matèria:	Digital literacy for CFL education ; Open access database ; CFL learning tools
Publicat a:	The 4th International Symposium of the European Association of Chinese Teaching (EACT). Southampton, 4t : 2023

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Documents de recerca > Documents dels grups de recerca de la UAB > Centres i grups de recerca (producció científica) > Arts i humanitats > Grup d'estudi de la literacitat en l’ensenyament i l’aprenentatge de segones llengües i traducció (GELEA2LT)
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