Mandarin for Beginners PinYin Approach (Yipin Courseware) is a courseware developed to assist the non-Chinese speaking learners to learn Mandarin. It uses the Pinyin approach, a combination of still images and moving pictures (video), audio, text and graphics with many interesting elements. The software is attractive, dynamic and interactive. It could be used as a learning material for revision, tutorial and enrichment purposes.
Objective
• To ease the learning of Mandarin among non-Chinese speaking learners
Novelty and inventiveness
• Based on the Level 1 Mandarin course syllabus offered by UiTM
• Interactive approach
• Comprehensive contents
• Suitable for all non-Chinese speaking learners
• Able to help learners to learn at their own pace and time
Usefulness and Application
• Provides Mandarin learning opportunities in a self-pace learning manner
• Caters for the need of Mandarin learning without instructor
• Overcomes the problem of insufficient Mandarin instructors
• Provides additional audio visual learning materials to listen and hear the correct Mandarin pronunciation
• Provides alternative material to improve Mandarin pronunciation and speaking skills
Specialty
• Suitable to be used internationally as the contents are presented in two language: Bahasa Melayu-Mandarin and English-Mandarin
Contact:
NORLINA MOHD SABRI, HASIAH MOHAMED, NORULHIDAYAH ISA, NAZATUL AZLEEN ZAINAL ABIDIN, NOR AZLINA MAHMOOD, FACULTY OF COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
GOH YING SOON, ACADEMY OF LANGUAGE STUDIES
ABDULLAH B. JAMIL, FACULTY OF ART AND DESIGN, UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA
