Introducing 3D Characters into Chinese Learning

This project features a novel application of the makerspace practice in a Pro Humanitate educational context by integrating hands-on WakerSpace experience with foreign language learning. With the support of WakerSpace Fellow grant, this project introduced 3D character learning in CHI 101 First-Year Chinese (I). The introduction of 3D technology not only incorporated haptic information cues that complement and interact with visual information in students’ radical awareness development, but also added exciting possibilities for new classroom instructional design.

Presenter Information

Qiaona Yu

Assistant Professor of Chinese

Qiaona joined Wake Forest in 2016. She has previously taught courses at all levels of Mandarin language and Business Chinese in the States and China. Her research specializes in the intersection between Chinese linguistics and second language acquisition and currently focuses on defining, assessing, and developing Chinese syntactic complexity. She is particularly interested in task-based language education, language for specific purposes, and cognitive linguistics

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