Enhancing Mobile Learning App for Revamped Blended Learning Class in Beginner's Chinese Course

Abstract

The authors have been conducting Chinese language classes for first-year university students that combine face-to-face instruction and e-learning for review. They have also been developing a mobile application for review. Beginning this year, the curriculum has been modified so that one of the two linked weekly classes will be conducted as an on-demand class, and the app will be utilized to consolidate the learning content. The mobile application was also substantially modified accordingly. This paper describes the design.