Teaching Business Chinese Online
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.v19i3.525-532Keywords:
Business Chinese, World Wide Web, Multimedia, CALLAbstract
A comprehensive approach to teaching Business Chinese online is being developed in the Language Learning Laboratory at the University of Illinois. The courseware consists two complementary parts: a Business Chinese Workbook and a Business Chinese Simulation. The Workbook offers step by step language instruction with sample texts and dialogues, focused exercises, grammar explanations, and vocabulary, while the Simulation presents real-world situations for problem solving through language use. Technical challenges and difficulties in constructing and administrating the courseware on the web are discussed.
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