Strengthening Writing Ability Among Students Learning Chinese as a Second Language Through Creative Thinking Spiral Teaching Strategy

Ju-May Wen, Hai-Dung Do, Eric Zhi-Feng Liu, Chun-Hung Lin and Shihping Kevin Huang

SAGE Open, 2023, vol. 13, issue 3, 21582440231179710

Abstract: This study investigated the effect of educational board games and the creative thinking spiral teaching strategy (CTSTS) on the learning outcomes of beginner-level Chinese language learners. Two dimensions were measured: learning outcome and writing ability. A total of 82 learners from one university in Taiwan participated in this study. Participants were non-randomly selected using convenience sampling. The participants were divided into the control group (40 participants) and experimental group (42 participants). In the control group, the teacher used the board game “Conveyance GO†as a teaching tool; in the experimental group, both Conveyance GO and CTSTS were used to teach the Chinese language. The results indicate no significant difference in learning outcomes between the groups. However, the experimental group exhibited a significantly larger improvement in writing abilities than did the control group, especially in terms of cohesion, coherence, and grammatical accuracy.

Keywords: Chinese-language teaching; educational board game; process writing; creative thinking spiral teaching strategy; thinking construction play and communication reflection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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