An Analysis And Reflection On Using Smartphone Software To Learn Chinese Characters As A Foreign Language

With the emergence of new technologies and the popularity of smart phones,mobile learning has entered people’s lives.Chinese mobile learning resources have many advantages and can be used to solve some practical problems in teaching.Teachers can use mobile learning software to assist traditional Chinese character teaching in the classroom,to some extent,to solve the problems that need to be solved.The first part of this paper expounds the background,purpose,significance and methods of this study,through the literature review,the mobile learning and the research on mobile Chinese learning software used in Chinese learning are reviewed.The second part of this paper defines the definition of mobile learning,and describes its characteristics and the theoretical basis of language learning using mobile learning software.The third part of this paper analyzes the correspondence between Chinese character learning software and Chinese character learning from three aspects: the characteristics of Chinese characters are suitable for multimedia display,the complexity of Chinese character teaching can be supplemented by software teaching and the difficulties in learning Chinese characters are more suitable for teaching by software.The forth part of this paper select two representative Chinese character mobile software to analyze the interface design,learning content,learning design and function setting,and discuss the advantages of the two.The fifth part of this paper analyze the experience feedback of online learners and offline learners.Through the feedback of online users,summarize the advantages and disadvantages of them.Test usage after using the online learning,and understand the feasibility of using the Chinese character mobile learning software to float the Chinese character teaching.After the test,take the form of oral interviews to investigate the students’ acceptance of the Chinese character mobile learning software.Finally,in order to solve the above problems,I put forward some suggestions to the software developer learners and Chinese teachers.Developers should refine the feedback function,make practices in a variety of ways;the explanation of Chinese characters needs to be refined and deepened and the explanation of Chinese characters should be added;add fun and set up the daily punch card function.The learner should pay attention to the standardization of Chinese character learning;strengthen the pertinence of Chinese character learning;focus on the sustainability of using mobile learning software.Chinese teachers should understand students to know what kind of software is suitable for their students;use the app effectively during the time in class and after class;according to the problem,explain them in class.