Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2004

Full Length Research Paper

Research on the learning effects of multimedia assisted instruction on Mandarin vocabulary for Vietnamese students: A preliminary study involving e- learning system

Chen-Yuan Chen1,2,3* and Wan-Lin Chung4
1Department and Graduate School of Computer Science, National Pingtung University of Education, No. 4-18, Ming Shen Rd., Pingtung 90003, Taiwan. 2Global Earth Observation and Data Analysis Center (GEODAC), National Cheng Kung University, No 1, Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan. 3Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Jhuoyue Rd. Nanzih, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan. 4Department of Chinese Language Instruction, National Pingtung University of Education, No. 4-18, Ming Shen Rd., Pingtung 90003, Taiwan
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 08 September 2011
  •  Published: 05 November 2011

Abstract

As Mandarin gains popularity in the whole world, Mandarin education becomes valued by the countries all over the world. The United Nations classifies Mandarin as one of the six major languages, and the number of people who learn Mandarin in the whole world grows with each passing day as the mainland China market grows. This study discusses the learning effects of using multimedia assisted instruction on Mandarin vocabulary for Vietnamese students, taking into account the difficulty that Vietnamese students encountered during the learning process of multimedia assisted instruction.

 

Key words: e- learning, multimedia assisted instruction, Mandarin vocabulary, Mandarin education.