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The Design of Mandarin-Chinese Teaching Materials
with the Theme of Taiwan National Parks
Abstract
The development of teaching material is extremely important within foreign language teaching. In the last few years, Mandarin-Chinese textbooks have become more common; nevertheless, the teaching materials and courses for tourism regarding “Chinese for Special Purposes”( CSP ) has remained scarce. This study attempted to develop Mandarin-Chinese teaching materials for Taiwan’s National Parks. Mandarin-Chinese Second-Language Learners’ needs and interests in traveling to Taiwan’s National Parks were surveyed and evaluated by experts who teach Mandarin-Chinese as a profession. Through using the Document Analysis Method and the Questionnaire Survey, data or information was collected, sorted, and analyzed in the designing of the teaching material for Taiwan’s National Parks in order to increase reliability and validity through expert judging and material revision. The results are as follows:
Results indicated that the majority of Mandarin-Chinese learners have a great interest in learning Mandarin, Taiwan history and culture through tourism teaching materials.
The questionnaire and the material evaluation both agreed that the text content should be mainly arranged by the topic of simulated situations such as hiking, renting a car, and so on. In order to assist Mandarin-Chinese learners with listening, speaking, reading, and writing, the material should be designed with vocabulary, sentence-patterns, important historical-cultural information, and synthesized practice.
Expert evaluation indicated that this teaching material conformed to the fundamental principles of material-design in this study such as usability, cultural elements, and so on. At the same time, it promotes communication and socialization in learners and increases their understanding in the customs and traditions of Taiwan.
This study was designed with Mandarin-Chinese integrating tourism to meet the learning needs of Chinese-Mandarin Second Language Learners. Subsequently, foreigners and Mandarin instructors can utilize this study’s teaching materials to enhance Mandarin acquisition and the assimilation of information regarding Taiwan′s Nine National Parks. Hopefully, it can provide future instructors teaching tourism and researchers with some advice and references.
Keywords: Tourism, Mandarin-Chinese, The design of Mandarin-Chinese teaching materials, Taiwan National Parks
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