Development of Multimedia Chinese Lessons for Beginners

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Piyawan Piyakan
Sujitra Prawong
Nuttaphong Kanchanachaya

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop multimedia Chinese lessons for beginners, 2) to study the achievement of the lessons, and 3) to investigate the learners’ satisfaction towards the lessons. The samples were 95 students at Navamindarajudis Thaksin School in Songkhla. They were divided into an experimental group of 48 samples and a control group of 47 samples. The research instruments included 1) a multimedia lesson quality evaluation form, 2) multimedia lessons comprising a multimedia book and computer multimedia, 3) a multimedia lesson learning management plan, 4) a traditional learning management plan, 5) a learning achievement test, and 6) a satisfaction form. Mean, standard deviation, and t-test were employed in data analysis.


The findings were as follows. 1) The quality of multimedia lessons was rated excellent (M=4.76, SD=0.37) with 81.63/80.25 effectiveness. 2) Learning achievement of the experimental group whose test score was M=41.79, SD=6.50 was higher than that of the control group (M=36.81, SD=6.12) at a significant level of .01. 3) The learners’ satisfaction towards the lessons was at the highest level (M=4.52, SD=0.65).

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Piyakan, P., Prawong, S., & Kanchanachaya, N. (2022). Development of Multimedia Chinese Lessons for Beginners. Journal of Information and Learning [JIL], 33(3), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.14456/jil.2022.25
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