Investigation whether using a game improves the learning of Mandarin Chinese tones in comparison to traditional training

Zwart, Tessa (2021) Investigation whether using a game improves the learning of Mandarin Chinese tones in comparison to traditional training. Bachelor's Thesis, Artificial Intelligence.

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Abstract

This research examined what a more effective way of learning Mandarin Chinese tones is: training using a game or a more traditional method. Playing games is an effective way of learning, as the level of involvement and the motivation of the player might increase. The participants in this experiment did a training using a game, a test before this training and after the training. In addition, a generalization test was performed. Evidence was found that the traditional training method outperformed the training method with the game in distinguishing the Mandarin tones. This could be explained by participants first focusing on learning the game rather than learning the tones directly. Also, the game was based on implicit learning and the traditional learning method was not, so the participants did not know what to expect. An example of future research is to extend the period of learning so that the participants have more time to first learn the game.

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis)
Supervisor name:	Jones, S.M. and Tang, M.
Degree programme:	Artificial Intelligence
Thesis type:	Bachelor's Thesis
Language:	English
Date Deposited:	16 Jul 2021 08:06
Last Modified:	16 Jul 2021 08:06
URI:	https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/25118

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