Research questions:
1) Does creative drama have an effect on developing Chinese speaking skills of Secondary school students?

2) What is the effect of Tiktok on the self-confidence of Secondary school students？

2.Which part do you enjoy the most?

3.What would you like to share with your friend after doing this assignment?

•2. Does collaborative learning promote students' second language competency at primary school level?

Interview-Students' perspective regarding collaborative learning in second language.. 
Interview-Teachers' observation on the effect of collaborative learning in second language.
Quasi Experiment - Collaborative learning vs Individual learning in a written task
Observation - a Chinese lesson conducted using collaborative learning followed by interview

•Interview Question1: Without teacher using English in Chinese lesson, can you fully understand the reading comprehension passage?

•Interview Question2: Do you feel more confident in doing reading comprehension if your teacher uses some English in Chinese lesson?

“The effect of picture books on P1 students’ interest in learning Chinese and their vocabulary knowledge.”

 

Construct : 
Interest & vocabulary knowledge

How we measure interest:
1. We can conduct interviews with students to measure their interest (let them describe their feelings).
2. We can use observation to know (During the process, the teacher will pay attention to the students' expressions, feelings, and reactions.
3. We can use some tools like the "Before and after feeling card" to measure the interest of students.

How we measure vocab knowledge：
1. We may ask students to retell the story in verbal form.
2. Students can retell the meaning of vocab and maybe we ask them to use the vocab they learnt to form a sentence or story.

 Constructs: Conducting Lessons/ Social Skills.

 
How do we conduct the lessons? 

1.    Lessons can be conducted in a fun and conducive learning environment. 

Example: Allowing breaks and playing Chinese videos in between so students would be more engaged. 

2.  Engage in critical thinking through workshops and homework. 

 How can social skills get students be interested? 

1.   Encourage students to speak in their mother tongue language among their peers and family. 

 2.  Remind students that speaking in their mother tongue language is key and important to learning other languages. 

 3.  Word and language games can be used in between lessons as well so students can interact in their mother tongue language. 

Interview Questions 

 1.  Would Chinese Videos and Games help you to learn mandarin better? 

(Charades, Word Games and matching words)

 

2. Do you like speaking Chinese at home? 

 

3. Other than Chinese Videos and games, what other activities do you think you would be interested in?

 

4.   If teacher would encourage a gift system for speaking Chinese 3 days per week, would you be interested? 

RQ(2)How to motivate primary school students to learn their mother tongue language? 

 Constructs: Conducting games and workshops for students / Parents educating their child 

 

Interview Questions 

1.  What kind of Chinese games would you and your friends enjoy playing?

              

2. How do you feel after your parents brought you to Chinese speaking places?

 

3.  Do you prefer playing games or watching videos in between lessons?

 

4. What kind of workshops do you want the teacher to conduct after attending the workshop? 

 

5. Tell us how often would you prefer us to conduct games and workshop? 

 

a)   Once per week. 

b)    Once a month. 

c)    Every 3 months.

   

 

Research questions:
1) Does creative drama have an effect on developing Chinese speaking skills of Secondary school students?

2) What is the effect of Tiktok on the self-confidence of Secondary school students？

What is the effect of TikTok on developing Chinese-speaking skills of secondary school students?

Chinese-speaking skills

1) Interview students

Do you think using TicTok has helped your Chinese-speaking skills?

Has TicTok helped you improve your Chinese-speaking skills?

How much has using TicTok improved your Chinese-speaking ability? 

Could you please briefly describe the aspects of speaking ability that you have improved?

2) Observing students

- Answer questions in class (Actively or inactively)

- Group presentation (Confident or unconfident)

- Speech in front of a lot people (Sufficient content or insufficient content)

3) Oral practice / test / exam (High score or low score)

 

Variables: To measure mainly “Intrinsic” and “Extrinsic” factors 

 

Interview Target: Kindergarten 2 and Primary 1 age-group children, about 5 students from each age of these 2 levels.

 

How do we measure? Use prepared video; with keyword text shown at the end of each short videos, according to planned curriculum during the online lesson. Observe children’s body language, expressions, conversations from the recorded video. Conduct multiple interviews with children over various online education lessons, over a long period of time, maybe 6 months. 

 

Units: Group of students. Bounded within a group, and a 6-month period.

 

Initial Interview Questions (start with Open-ended questions; repeat, rephrase to look for data):

1.      Do you like the video?

2.      Tell me what they are doing?

3.      Do you want to watch it again? Why?

 

Observation: Video record the conversations among the children during their online session and after the session. Look for the following data when children talk among themselves.

 

Data Collection: Have students talk about their feelings. Look for data in the video (excitement, emotions, new knowledge, reasons for wanting to watch, reasons for words, expressions in context of understanding, body language, expression of desire to repeat viewing, look for keywords pertaining to the variables, etc). 

Learning of Chinese words 

Types of Data to be collected:

Quantitative: 

Pre Post Word test on the meaning of words learnt 

Qualitative:

Interview with questions asking about:

How the use of the strategy helped the students recall the meaning of the words

Does using the strategy help the students to recall the meaning of the words better? (effectiveness)