Design and Development of an E-learning Tool for Children to Learn How to Write the Chinese Words

How to make learning the Chinese language fun and interesting for young children is a non-trivial challenge to educators and/or institutions. At the China-America Language and Culture Exchange Center (CALCEC), an integrated education system (IES) is currently under development for teaching Chinese to children. This paper presents the design and development of a Chinese word-writing tool, one of the interactive e‐learning tools developed at CALCEC as part of its IES. The Internet is chosen as the conveyance tool for the e‐ learning system. A website www.kidchinese.com has been built to deliver the interactive learning system to students. The preliminary survey results indicate that the interactive e‐learning tool helps to keep and increase students’ interests in learning the Chinese language.