New digital environment and media competence in education case study of how digital textbook improve chinese teaching in school

Résumé

The research tries to explore the role that the use of digital text books play in the process of teaching and learning Chinese, and in the process with which students acquire information and media competencies. My project is a case study integrated with both quantitative and qualitative methods. First there is an introduction of the thesis, then the author will do a literature review of the digital platform and also a literature review of digital technique in Chinese teaching. Then the author conducts experiment with paper-based textbook and digital textbook, after the experiment there will be the data analysis of student’s learning results with digital textbook. The analysis includes two parts, one part is the usability analysis of digital textbook: learnability, efficiency, memorability, errors and satisfaction. The other part is sending out questionnaires and interviews to the students, teachers and parents. After the one-year experiment, teaching with digital textbook and traditional paper-based textbook, students are happy with digital textbook, and parents show a little concern about it and teachers would love to promote digital textbook in Chinese class. The findings are as follows: 1. Students learning results improved with the digital textbook. 2. Students like learning through digital textbook, they almost use it everyday or every two or three days. They spend a lot of time on digital textbook everyday. Most of the students can use digital textbook to preview and review the lessons. And most of them can learn all by themselves through digital textbook. 3. And students can concentrate more in class with digital technique, because digital platform can offer more interesting activities that make learning more fun. 4. Because Chinese is complicated, especially written in Chinese, with digital platform students can understand better and memorize better. 5. Most of the parents believe that Chinese is important for their kids and using digital textbook is good for their kids to learn Chinese because their kids show more interest in learning Chinese with digital textbook, but some of them are worried about the side affect of digital textbook. 6. Most of the teachers use digital textbook in Chinese class, and support using digital textbook. But some of the teachers still using the traditional way of teaching and they don’t suggest on using digital textbook. 7. Most of the teacher believe that digital textbook has changed teacher centered teaching mode and it becomes more student centered. And students’ abilities improved, such as information seeking ability, techniques of using electronic devices, communication and discussion ability and the ability to summarize. Digital textbook makes atmosphere in the class more active.8. Most of the teachers believe that with digital textbook, the method of evaluating students is more diversified and their teaching method is changed and their teaching abilities have been improved. 9. Traditional textbook is not useless, it is an supplement for digital teaching. Digital textbook will not replace the traditional way of teaching. And some of the teacher also think digital textbook is a little burden for them to prepare the class. 10. Most of the teachers would love to promote digital textbook in schools and they believe digital teaching in Chinese language is a trend.In the end the author will do the conclusions and give some implications.