Promoting language competence and cultural awareness through blogging in a Chinese language course Zhou Hongfen

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Promoting language competence and cultural awareness through blogging in a Chinese language course Zhou Hongfen

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 Task Writing Female social status in China and in your home country Chinese new year and Christmas Learning burden One child policy Chinese medicine and Western medicine Free Writing Website recommendation Holiday diary Hot topic News Notice board

THE ANALYSIS ON THE CATEGORIES OF COURSE BLOG

QUESTIONAIRE Pre-survey No one used blog for personal use or educational purpose before Hope to get interesting and useful information from course blog Learn more culture Get feedback about their essay from course blog to learn more phrases and culture Post-survey 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 71% students agreed that learned new vocabularies, improved their language and enriched their cultural knowledge about China 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

QUESTIONS?