Integrating FLASH in Chinese Language Instructions

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Integrating FLASH in Chinese Language
Instructions

• CLTA-GNY Annual Conference
• May 10, 2008
• Jun Kramer
• junkramer_at_yahoo.com
• Yinghua Day School, Yinghua Language School

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What is FLASH?

• 1. Historically called Shockwave Flash, recently
  called Macromedia Flash
• 2. A set of multimedia technologies for Web pages
• 3. A file, usually having a .swf file extension

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Benefits to Language Teachers

• Resource of stories, rhymes, songs, etc.
• Visualizing Inputs
• Animated and Interactive

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Benefits to Chinese Language Teachers

• Tremendous Existence
• Educators in China have made effort to animate
  lessons and put them on-line.
• Illustrating the correct writing order of Chinese
  characters

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Benefits to Students Outside Classroom

• 1. Be Accessible for students at home. (No extra
  software needed, cross-platform, etc.)
• 2. Preserving instructions for student review.
• 3. Great helper in writing Chinese characters.

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FLASH and Culture

• Culturally Authentic FLASH
• Abacus
• Zodiac and Chinese New Year
• Chinese Paper-cut
• Chinese Painting

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FLASH and Input Visualization

• Example Calendar

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FLASH as Communicative Activities Listening and
Reading

• Listening - It is about to rain, Two Lions,
  The white rabbit and gray rabbit
• Listening and Reading - Two Bird Eggs, Tails,
  Four Seasons

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FLASH as Communicative Activities Props (Oral)

• Story Telling - The Lotus
• Three-student Drama - Three monks
• Multi-student Drama - The pony crossed the river

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FLASH as Communicative Activities Songs and
Rhymes

• Tremendous Existence!!

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FLASH as Homework

• Chinese Character Writing
• Entire Text for Review

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FLASH as Assessment

• Example Looking for homes