Sunday 9 October 2011

Debates on Learning Chinese / Interaction / ICLT (09 Oct 2011)

Debates on Learning Chinese:

From reading the Research Process brief I wanted to have a better idea of the surrounding debates around learning Chinese in the wider global community. This includes writing, speaking and reading both Simplified and Traditional forms of Chinese.

Debate on Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters (divisions caused by two writing systems)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_on_traditional_and_simplified_Chinese_characters

Will American really learn Chinese? (Short-term or Long-term trend?)
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/will-americans-really-learn-chinese/

Learning Chinese isn't hard (caution: bad language!)
http://eastasiastudent.net/969/china/mandarin/difficulty-debate/

Learning Chinese is hard (depending on who is learning it)
http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2010/11/12/why-learning-chinese-is-hard

US Kids should learn Chinese (pros and cons)
http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2011/08/us_kids_should_learn_chinese_1.html

Chinese is more important than English?
http://www.debate.org/debates/Chinese-is-more-important-than-English-recently./1/


Debates on Interactive Learning:

I wanted to see if there were any surrounding debates around Interactive Learning to get a wider view, see other areas, and remove any bias around learning Chinese.

Theories on Interactive Learning
http://www.ehow.com/info_7953175_theories-interactive-learning.html

Interactive learning as an "emerging" technology: A resassessment of interactive and instruction design strategies
http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet13/sims.html


Debates on Interactive Chinese Learning:

In this specialist area I wanted to see if there are any debates specifically around Interactive Chinese Learning Tools. They may be known by other names which I will include here.

http://chineselearningsoftware.rocketchinesetutor.com/category/chinese-learning-articles/

http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/A-New-Way-To-Learn-Chinese--Mando-Mandarin/2978526




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