Media Use and the Level of New Media Literacy of the Prospective Chinese Language Teachers in the Post COVID-19 Epidemic Era

Abstract

In this research, new media literacy skills of prospective Chinese language teachers have been examined and analyzed based on Jenkins' 12 New Media Literacy Skills. The quantitative means, i.e. the investigation model was used in the study. The sample comprises 177 prospective Chinese language teachers was chosen by convenient sampling. According to the findings, it can be said that students' new media literacy skills are at a satisfactory level without significance difference of gender. Skills in which the students got the highest score are respectively trans-media navigation, judgment, play, collective intelligence. When they cannot resolve a problem, they effectively make use of printed media and new media that based on the latest new information technology. Except TV and social media, the more time the students spend on the printed media, digital game, learning APP, course portal or SPOC, the higher level of students' play, appropriation, simulation, distributed cognition, multitasking, collective intelligence, judgment, networking, visualization are. These findings are of great significance for the appropriate integration of information technology into the Chinese language teaching in higher education in the post COVID-19 epidemic era.