Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language with Information and Communication Technology (ICT): A Case Study of the People’s Republic of China

Abstract

The objectives of this research are 1) studying the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language by using information and communication technology (ICT) in The People's Republic of China 2) synthesizing knowledge gained from the research to be used as suggestions and applying to the teaching of the Chinese language in Thailand. The results show that China has developed and supported the use of ICT seriously and continuously. ICT technologies that are useful and suitable for the application of Chinese language teaching in Thailand are web site, mobile learning, chatting software, ICT technology in Chinese testing, electronic dictionary, comics and animation, blog, tag cloud or word cloud, ICT for Chinese language lessons, data warehouse or corpus, software, game, E-learning and Hybrid Learning.