An Investigation And Research Of TCSOL APPs

Mobile learning has increasingly become a hot topic of academic research,but the research on mobile learning APPs for TCSOL is rare.This paper takes the international Chinese teaching APPs as the research object,investigates and studies such APPs(especially comprehensive APPs),in order to find out their common advantages and disadvantages,and puts forward some suggestions for improvement in the future development and application.The use of APP can alleviate the problem of space limitation in TCSOL under the influence of the epidemic,and play a positive role in meeting the learning needs of different learners and realizing personalized learning.It then investigates the demand of TCSOL APPs through questionnaires.The results show that: 1)Dictionary function,voice demonstration function and Chinese character writing function are the most needed functions of comprehensive APPs for Chinese learning;2)The functions of speech demonstration,daily scene dialogue reproduction and Chinese writing should be provided for learners;3)Classified video teaching materials,interesting Power Point making tutorials,exercises and teaching skills training that are associated with the textbook are the functions it should provide for teachers.Next,it focuses on the analysis of 12 comprehensive APPs,including platform overview,main audience and support language,interface and interaction design,function setting and content analysis,operation and promotion,common features,etc.And a representative comprehensive APP-"Hi Chinese" case analysis.The key analysis and case analysis may provide some enlightenment and reference for the research,development and upgrading of comprehensive APPs application software for TCSOL.Finally,the paper sums up the problems existing in the TCSOL comprehensive APPs,including the integration with traditional classrooms,the problems in content resources,the problems in development and promotion,and the problems in operation and maintenance.This paper give some suggestions on the important ones,including strengthening the integration of TSCOL comprehensive APPs and traditional classrooms;Increase the content resources of comprehensive APP;Expand the scope of comprehensive APP;An effective evaluation mechanism for users should be established inside the APP and a unified industry standard should be established outside the APP.