Chinese CALL: Theoretical Foundation, Current Practice and Future Directions
- DOI
- 10.2991/asshm-13.2013.16How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- CALL, Theoretical Foundation, Current Practice, Future Directions
- Abstract
This paper discusses computer assisted language learning (CALL) theory and practice for the Chinese language. It examines current advancement in Chinese CALL research and points out the inadequacy of the existing second language acquisition (SLA) theory to serve as the foundation for Chinese CALL research. The paper also explores the current state-of-the-art Chinese CALL systems pointing out their characteristics and inadequacies. The paper hopes to show that there is a gap between the Chinese CALL development and that for the western languages (notably English). However, many technologies for integration into Chinese CALL systems are currently available. This paper introduces a few significant findings along the line of corpus linguistics, web as corpus and construction-based Chinese language teaching prototypes. Our task is to study SLA theory and CALL designing principles carefully and to put the Chinese language technology to good use, taking Chinese linguistics findings into consideration to make the Chinese CALL theory and practice more validated and effective for the future generation.
- Copyright
- © 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Xujun Tian AU - Chris Shei PY - 2013/12 DA - 2013/12 TI - Chinese CALL: Theoretical Foundation, Current Practice and Future Directions BT - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Humanities, and Management PB - Atlantis Press SP - 87 EP - 90 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/asshm-13.2013.16 DO - 10.2991/asshm-13.2013.16 ID - Tian2013/12 ER -