Instructional technology design of smart Malay-Mandarin Dictionary (SMMD) to support vocabulary acquisition in teaching Chinese as a foreign language

• Published in: Instructional Technology Research, Design and Development: Lessons from the Field
• Main Author: Goh Y.; Warris S.N.; Mohamed H.; Sabri N.M.
• Format: Book chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IGI Global 2011
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898556023&doi=10.4018%2f978-1-61350-198-6.ch016&partnerID=40&md5=688d424343414e50261820f00788a680

Teaching Mandarin language to non-native learners requires lots of efforts and excellent resources in order to assist learners in their learning process. Vocabularies plays an important roles for the learners because the numbers of vocabularies they have will help them to master the language and give them confidence to converse in Mandarin. Smart Malay-Mandarin Dictionary (SMMD) is developed to help learners gain as much as they can the vocabularies needed. The advantages of SMMD that offers not only the word that learners search for, but it also provides all of the related words that match the word typed by the learners. Formative evaluation was conducted in order to gain users feedback, comments and suggestion towards the use of SMMD in their learning process. The result shows students did agree that SMMD assisted them in their vocabulary acquisition. They were very contented with the use of SMMD in improving their vocabularies. The effectiveness of SMMD as a whole is positive as it did support the vocabulary acquisition for the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language. © 2012, IGI Global.