About this Project
Welcome to the UBC CJK Chinese Character Multimedia Dictionary!
The project organizers gratefully acknowledge the financial backing for this
project provided by UBC students via the Teaching and Learning Enhancement
Fund. The title of the project is “Technology-enhanced Chinese
character learning resources for use in ‘CJK’ (Chinese-Japanese-Korean)
language courses.”
Development team members:
Content Managers:
- Dr. Ross King, Professor of Korean
- Dr. Duanduan Li, Assistant Professor of Chinese and Director of the Chinese Language Program
- Dr. Rebecca Chau, Instructor in Japanese and Coordinator of the Japanese Language Programme
Programmer:
- Jesse Chen, UBC Computer Science
Much of the work on the site is ongoing and is performed by a
team of more than a dozen UBC undergraduate and graduate students.
Objectives, rationale and methods:
Our objective is to
- develop a database and interface for an integrated CJK Chinese character-learning tool, and
- populate the database with all the information essential to learning 2,000-4,000 Chinese characters each in CJK.
The rationales are:
- huge student numbers and demand for CJK and Chinese characters at UBC;
- a global approach to Chinese characters in CJK allows for economies, especially for learners with exposure to another East Asian language;
- for each character (e.g.: 學 ‘learn’), learners need information about:
stroke orders, pronunciation(s), English-language gloss(es), target language gloss(es) (JK),
radical, stroke counts, compounds and phrases that include the character,
sentences exemplifying them in context, and audio. All these types of information
can be presented, searched, reviewed, quizzed, tracked and learned more effectively in a
web-based self-learning context.
