Using Mobile Application for Teaching Chinese Vocabulary in Thailand High School

Abstract

This thematic paper examined the use of the mobile phone Application in Chinese vocabulary learning. The research objectives included: (1) To study the overall attitude of students in Chinese learning; (2) To study results of Chinese vocabulary learning attitude; ( 3) To study the Chinese achievement between before and after using mobile application learning. To research the three objectives, analysis was done across the data collection methods. This paper uses quantitative research, including lesson plans, pre- test, post- test, questionnaires. This paper takes 130 grade 9 students for population and take 100 students. The research finding revealed that: (1) Students think Chinese is important but difficult to learn; ( 2) Students think Chinese vocabulary is the most significant in Chinese learning and need to learn firstly; (3) Students perform better after using mobile Application in learning Chinese. Finally, the paper discuss and recommendation for teaching and learning.