A Pilot Evaluation of the Chinese Learning System to Support a Flipped Classroom

Abstract

The study is a multi-phase study. The researcher aims to conduct a series of study through several research stages to investigate how the use of learning technology could foster classical Chinese flipped learning. In this study, the researcher had developed the Chinese learning system based on the previous research results from the first stage research and conducted the experiment to evaluate whether the developed Chinese learning system could facilitate classical Chinese learning. The findings revealed that the students who learned with and without the developed system together with the flipped classroom learning all improved their Chinese performance. However, it was noticeable that the learners who used the developed system showed better motivation in terms of self-directed preview learning. The use of the developed has the potential to support the flipped classroom strategy for classical Chinese learning. Suggestions and future work are also discussed in the end of the paper.