How Flexible Grouping Affects the Collaborative Patterns in a Mobile-Assisted Chinese Character Learning Game?

Autor/inn/en	Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Hsu, Ching-Kun; Sun, Jizhen; Boticki, Ivica
Titel	How Flexible Grouping Affects the Collaborative Patterns in a Mobile-Assisted Chinese Character Learning Game?
Quelle	In: Educational Technology & Society, 16 (2013) 2, S.174-187 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1436-4522
Schlagwörter	Grouping (Instructional Purposes); Teaching Methods; Chinese; Educational Games; Telecommunications; Handheld Devices; Educational Technology; Foreign Countries; Second Language Instruction; Cooperative Learning; Focus Groups; Competition; Interaction; Grade 3; Elementary School Students; Orthographic Symbols; Technology Uses in Education; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grouping; Gruppenbildung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; China; Chinesen; Educational game; Lernspiel; Telekommunikationstechnik; Unterrichtsmedien; Ausland; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Kooperatives Lernen; Wettkampf; Interaktion; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Singapur
Abstract	This paper reports the impacts of spontaneous student grouping to develop young students' orthographic awareness in the process of learning Chinese characters. A mobile-assisted Chinese character forming game is used to assign each student a Chinese character component on their smartphones through a wireless network. Fifteen Singaporean students, all 3rd graders (10-year-old) studying Chinese as a second language (L2), were required to negotiate with their peers to form groups that could assemble eligible Chinese characters by using their respective components. The game process data and the transcriptions of focus group interviews were qualitatively analyzed in order to investigate the dynamics of student collaboration and competition during the games. In turn, the patterns of social interactions during the activities were identified, with a special focus on the varied impacts of the two grouping modes (allowing versus not allowing each student to join more than one group at one time) on the students' game habits. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10