The Development of Practice Packages on Chinese Pronunciation Skills through Seesaw Online Classroom for Students Majoring in Chinese Language Teaching

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) develop and measure the efficiency of a set of reading and pronunciation skills in Chinese phonetics via Seesaw online classroom; 2) examine the effectiveness of the set; and 3) evaluate students' satisfaction with practice packages on Chinese pronunciation via Seesaw online classroom. Thirty-six undergraduate students majoring in Chinese language teaching at a university in Thailand were the participants of this study. This study used descriptive statistics (mean and S.D.) and dependent samples t-test. The results of this research indicated a substantial increase in students' learning achievement due to the Seesaw online classroom. Additionally, the Development of Practice Packages for Chinese Pronunciation Skill Acquisition via Seesaw Online Classroom was greater (x̄=4.84, S.D.=0.37) than the researcher’s standard of 3.50, and achieved the efficiency standard criteria of 82.50/84.97, which was greater than the 80/80 efficiency standard criterion chosen. Students' satisfaction with learning was high when they utilized Seesaw's Chinese pronunciation practice packages (x̄= 4.50, S.D.= 0.54).