| dc.description.abstract | Traditional Chinese teachers are used to teach their students the Chinese knowledge directly, which leads to their students learn the Chinese knowledge passively. Such kind of teaching approach is hard to help the students to learn and think independently. Technology can enhance the interactions among teachers and students. More specifically, Through the combination of technology and teaching, it can enhance the students’ learning and thinking, solving problem, and act on their own problems actively. Meanwhile, adopting technology into the process of teaching and learning can also enhance the students’ social interactions even more. Therefore, in this study, an online learning platform named CoCoing.info was adopted that provides teachers and students with concept mapping, conversation window, group creating, and file recordings functions for Chinese subject learning activity. To explore the effects of adopting concept mapping tool in the Chinese course, there were fifty junior high school students involved. The action research method was adopted to observe the teacher and the students’ learning process, and qualitative and quantitative data were collected. The author gained the different perspectives from the comprehensive analysis of the multi-party data. The results revealed that through the action research of assimilating the online concept mapping tool in the Chinese subject, the students could develop the ability of the transferable skills. Meanwhile, the implementation process and reflection from this study indicate that teachers’ professional development and the teaching experience were enhanced. | en_US |