Language Enhancement for Capstone Projects Using Interactive Apps (PL: Dr Julia Chen)

This project is developing a mobile app that offers discipline-related support to final year undergraduate students who need to write up their final-year projects (FYP) or capstone projects (CP) in English. The app, Capstone Ninja, has multi-modal English learning resources tailored to the students’ discipline and project type. Besides language learning tips, the app’s two other main features help students to manage their project deadlines and communicate more effectively with their supervisors and groupmates, making it a one-stop shop for successful FYP/CP completion. Our broader aim is to help students become more effective English communicators in their disciplinary field.

  

Developing a Ubiquitous Mobile-based Learning Tool for non-Chinese speaking Learners of Elementary Chinese (PL: Dr Ken Cheng)

Owing to its advantage of allowing learning to take place across different settings beyond time constraints and geographical barriers, mobile learning has been regarded as one of the most promising means of delivering learning content. In this regard, this project developed a mobile-based, ubiquitous, interactive learning tool for Elementary Level Chinese Subjects for non-Chinese speaking students, with a full coverage of different aspects of the language including phonetics, vocabulary and grammar so that students will have a balanced development of Chinese competence.