The usefulness of the tools introduced in the technology class in ESL teaching has been proven. What I want to test out is the usefulness of these instruments in Mandarin Chinese teaching and learning.
For example, Rbook is an effective tool for teachers to create their own big books to teach, but I just found out that it does not accept any other language except English. As a Chinese teacher, I cannot add any Chinese character to the pictures I selected in Rbook. It's fine to use Rbook to teach young children since they do not need to learn reading and writing of Mandarin Chinese. However, for students who need to learn reading and writing, usefulness of Rbook falls into question because it can present pictures only.
The good news is that Xtimeline is also appropriate for foreign language teaching. It can show Chinese perfectly. I designed my own timeline and shared it with my intermediate students. They liked it so much. For the homework this week, I asked them to create their own timeline by using Xtimeline. All of them were excited to do that. I felt that Xtimelime really works well in foreign language teaching. I will highly recommend it to other language teachers.
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