Primary School Students' Perceptions on Using IT
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The Digital Diaspora in Sunset Park: Information and Communication Technologies in Brooklyn’S Chinatown
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 2013 The Digital Diaspora in Sunset Park: Information and Communication Technologies in Brooklyn’s Chinatown Sarah Wendolyn Williams Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1759 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] THE DIGITAL DIASPORA IN SUNSET PARK: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BROOKLYN’S CHINATOWN by SARAH WENDOLYN WILLIAMS A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Anthropology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2013 © 2013 SARAH WENDOLYN WILLIAMS All Rights Reserved ii This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Anthropology in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ___Michael Blim___________________________ _________________________ _________________________________________ Date Chair of Examining Committee ___Gerald Creed___________________________ _________________________ _________________________________________ Date Executive Officer Professor Michael Blim Distinguished Professor David Harvey Professor Emeritus Jane Schneider Supervisory -
Survey Results & Analysis 2013 Student IT Experience Survey
Survey Results & Analysis for 2013 Student IT Experience Survey Wednesday, February 19, 2014 Powered by Vovici EFM www.vovici.com Executive Summary This report contains a detailed statistical analysis of the results to the survey titled 2013 Student IT Experience Survey . The results analysis includes answers from all respondents who took the survey in the 27 day period from Friday, October 11, 2013 to Wednesday, November 06, 2013. 1924 completed responses were received to the survey during this time. Survey Results & Analysis Survey: 2013 Student IT Experience Survey Author: Filter: Responses Received: 1924 1) What is your class standing? Response Count Percent Freshman 273 14.2% Sophomore 369 19.2% Junior 348 18.1% Senior 340 17.7% Graduate student - 1st year 324 16.8% Graduate student - year 2 or more 236 12.3% Non-degree seeking 15 0.8% Not sure 19 1.0% 2) In which School or College within the University are you enrolled? 3) Where do you reside? Other Responses: commuter Sweethome Villa Off Campus house Liberty Square apartment sweet home Collegiate Village Study Abroad (China) Study Abroad Long Island, NY Online Cohort student Sweethome Richmond sweet home apartment Villas on Rensch Greiner Hall B434AA Custer Street In Rochester as an online student Sweethome Off campus rented house off-campus apartment 87 Merrimac 4) Please indicate if you use, own, or bring any of the following devices to class.(Select all that apply.) Comment Responses: Microsoft Tablet ipod iPod Touch Surface RT (Windows tablet) Mobile phone I only bring the laptop on occasion iTouch Android tablet is my primary device. -
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TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – July 2011, volume 10 Issue 3 THE CHINESE INPUT CHALLENGES FOR CHINESE AS SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED WRITING: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY Lung-Hsiang Wong [email protected] Learning Sciences Laboratory, National Institute of Education, Singapore Ching-Sing Chai Learning Sciences Laboratory, National Institute of Education, Singapore [email protected] Ping Gao Learning Sciences Laboratory, National Institute of Education, Singapore [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper reports an exploratory study on Singapore secondary and primary school students’ perceptions and behaviors on using a variety of Chinese input methods for Chinese composition writing. Significant behavioral patterns were uncovered and mapped into a cognitive process, which are potentially critical to the training of students in inputting Chinese via computers. Due to the cognitive complexity of Chinese computer input, there seemed to be a misalignment between the perceived effectiveness of these input methods and their actual benefits. They will only be effective if the composition writers possess appropriate language abilities and technical skills. In addition, as secondary school composition writers had higher level linguistic and technical skills, for example, the ability to guess the correct pinyin (a Romanized phonetic scheme that is required for Chinese text input) based on experience, they were more likely to view the input system favorably than primary school students. This has implications in how to prepare primary school students for information and technology mediated composition writing in Singapore. Pinyin and technical skills should be introduced as early as possible for them to appreciate the benefits of computer-mediated Chinese text input and subsequently, composition writing. -
Introducing Computer Music in Mandarin Language Learning Software for Assisting Intonation to Non-Mandarin Speakers
2011 International Conference on Information and Finance IPEDR vol.21 (2011) © (2011) IACSIT Press, Singapore Introducing Computer Music in Mandarin Language Learning Software for Assisting Intonation to non-Mandarin Speakers + Hoong-Cheng Soong 1 and Koo-Yuen Phan 2 1 Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Barat, 31900 Kampar, Perak, Malaysia 2 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Barat, 31900 Kampar, Perak, Malaysia Abstract. Mandarin Chinese is widely spoken in worldwide nowadays due to economic growth in mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong or Macau. Therefore, it has attracted a large group of non- Mandarin speakers to comprehend the language regardless for business, education, politic and other purposes in the aforementioned countries. Nevertheless, non-Mandarin speakers might face difficulty learning the language particularly to differentiate the identified five different tones in Mandarin Chinese to convey different meanings in speech. In this paper, we are proposed to standardize the starting first tone of music note G, so that the differences between the pitches can be easily determined for the rest of the tonal sounds. Since four of the intonations in Mandarin provide different pitches of sound, the correlated music notes possibly can be mapped with the tones by introducing computer music with singing method to distinguish the tonal language when learning Mandarin Chinese from any Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) available in the market. We have developed a singing method framework with the use of CALL software to assist the non-Chinese speakers or non-Musicians to learn the tonal language in more effective and interactive.