Chinese Faculty Projects



Lin Domizio (Chinese, formerly of Connecticut C.)
Chinese fables annotated with HyperStudio
She is annotating a series of twelve Chinese fables with multimedia using HyperStudio. These materials are intended to help intermediate-level learners develop their listening comprehension and bring it to the advanced level. A report on the progress of this project is available.

Web-based cultural information for Chinese courses
Website that provides pedagogical information for various Chinese courses (Chinese 309, 303, 405, 406, and Chinese Calligraphy). One portion of the website will be dedicated to exploring ways of displaying Chinese text through the use of Java programming techniques (i.e.: Applet Author) that allow Chinese text to be displayed as a GIF image on a web page.

Tek-Wah King (Chinese, Connecticut C.)
Digital materials for first-year Chinese
His grant allowed him to experiment with digitized audio in cooperation with Maria Montzolis in the Connecticut College Language Lab. The audio he chose accompanies A Text for a Changing China and will be provided to Connecticut College Chinese students via the World Wide Web in RealMedia format. The project report is available.

Naogan Ma and Shaozhong Ma (Chinese, Trinity C.)
Chinese Character Recognition
They are developing exercises to help students discrimate between easily confused Chinese characters. These exercises, based on a HyperCard template, will help learners of Chinese in to recognize these characters, pronounce them properly and to learn their meanings. A progress report is available.

King-Fai Tam (Chinese, Trinity C.)
Annotation of Chinese literary essays
He is creating a reader of fifty literary essays written from 1919 to 1949. He is translating these works as well as annotating them with vocabulary, grammar and cultural notes and incorporating audio and video clips. Pre- and post-reading exercises and activities will also be made available.

Xiaomiao Zhu (Wesleyan U.), Lin Domizio (Connecticut C.), Hsiao-Ching Hsu (Wesleyan U.), Tek-Wah King (Connecticut C.) and Naogan Ma (Trinity C.)
Multimedia Textbook
They have been working on a computer-based multimedia textbook for first-year Chinese.

Xiaomiao Zhu (Chinese, Trinity C. and Wesleyan U.)
Pronunciation drills for first-year Chinese
Consortial project based on the development of pronunciation drills for a first semester Chinese course, using Echo, an Hypercard based application that was created at Wesleyan. The project consists of writing 5 drills for the introductory part and one drill for each of the 11 lessons.


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