On the Learning of Chinese Aspect Marker le through Interactive Multimedia Program (多媒體互動課程對華語時貌標記「了」學習成效之研究)

The Chinese aspect marker le has long been considered very difficult for CSL learners. Therefore, we created an computer-based interactive multimedia CSL program of the perfective le based on the linguistic studies of the perfective le [3,25,26,28,29] and explored its effectiveness. Results of this study didn’t show that the multimedia program as a self-learning tool outperform the printed materials significantly. Nevertheless, the result indicated that both the interactive multimedia program and the printed materials within their own groups do have significant effects on the members of the individual groups. This significance is the evidence supporting that the CSL program of le based on linguistic generalizations is effective. * This research was based on the project funded by the National Science Council (NSC) of the Republic of China under Contract No. NSC 97-2631-S-415-002. This paper is a revised and developed version of the first author’s master’s thesis. The second author is the primary investigator of this project and the third author is the co-investigator. We thank Dr. Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo and Dr. Jung-hsing Chang for their insightful comments at the oral defense. We also thank the anonymous reviewers of the ROCLING conference for their precious comments. All remaining errors are ours.