Development of a Web Application for Learning Chinese

Abstract

The objectives of this research are: 1) develop Chinese learning web application and 2) evaluate the effectiveness of Chinese learning web application. Data used in the experiment are Chinese vocabulary, video for learning Chinese conversation. Research tools include the experimental tool and data collection tool. The experimental tool is Chinese language learning web application developed by PHP, Java Script, HTML, CSS, connected to MySQL database. Data collection tool is Web Application Efficiency Assessment Form. The research implemented according to 5 steps of software development life cycle concept: 1) problem and requirement analysis 2) system design, 3) system development, 4) system testing, and 5) evaluation by 5 experts selecting from purposive sampling. The result of the project development was found that 1) from the developed web application for learning Chinese, users can learn Chinese words by category. Chinese conversation, and taking a test to measure the level of learning Chinese language, and 2) the efficiency of the proposed system evaluated by five experts is in highest level (X̅=4.77, S.D.=0.33).