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.kidchincse.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.