Dr Lin Jinzhan, Zhao Chunsheng, Dr Goh Hock Huan, Ang Swee Choon, Wong Chee How

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Abstract

 As a multiracial and multi-cultural society, Singapore has complex and special language environment, in which the Chinese language teaching is facing many challenges. Responding to these challenges, Ministry of Education put forward new guidelines for the cultivation of language skills and linguistic abilities, with the aim to nurture "active learners and proficient users". To achieve these objectives, the teaching materials will have to be closely related to real life situations, and this can be achieved by taking advantage of the abundant authentic materials corpuses can provide. Thus, SCCL is developing an online teaching resources platform for CL teachers and curriculum developers. The platform, 2 integrating The Singapore Daily Written Chinese Corpus and Singapore Chinese Textbook Corpus, comprises of a text grading and classifying function and modules for the retrieval of characters, words, and sentence patterns. This paper introduces the concrete design of each modules in the platform on the one hand, on the other hand, it sums up the feedbacks from the teachers who had tried the beta version of the platform. In today's highly developed information technology era, the data and functions of the platform will be a valuable resource for Chinese Language teaching, curriculum development, school-based curriculum design.

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Keyword(s) :  Teaching resources, Chinese language, corpus, information technology