Integrating ICT in Teaching Chinese Language and Literature

Abstract

Eight Chinese Language and Literature teachers participated in this research to make their first attempts at integrating information and communications technologies (ICT) into curriculum. They were provided training in common application tools and then paired up to develop ICT-based courseware for use in classroom teaching. Four units of courseware thus developed were field-taught to 169 students. Results of a questionnaire survey conducted after field-teaching indicate that most students prefer ICT-based lectures to conventional ones because ICT offers such benefits as making the lectures more interesting, enhancing the mood of the class, providing richer material than usual, and improving teacher-student interaction.