Multimedia Learning
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The purpose of this study is to develop a multimedia program and examine its effects on learning Chinese aspect markers le, zai, and zhe. The materials in the program were based on linguistic studies of le, zai, and zhe (Li & Thompson, 2005; Lin, 2002; Liu, 1997; Pan, 1996; Smith, 1997; Wu & Kuo, 2003; Wu, 2003, 2005, 2007; Xiao & McEnery, 2004; Yeh, 1993). We predicted that this multimedia program with animation presenting the target sentences can significantly improve Chinese as a Foreign Language (for short, CFL) learners' acquisition of these aspect markers. The participants were totally 35 CFL beginners. Nineteen of them in the experimental group received the interactive multimedia program and sixteen of them in the control group took the computer-based grammar program. The teaching experiment is a section of twenty minutes per day for 3 days. We conduct a pretest, immediate posttest, and one-month delayed posttest, and the performances between the two groups were compared using the independent T-test. Findings indicated that the experimental group showed a significant advantage over the control group both in the immediate posttest and the delayed posttest.