DragonsConnect

All the teacher content places a heavy focus on promoting Chinese culture as part of the teaching process. The asynchronous learning has specific culture sections to help students recall places and popular customs in Chinese-speaking territories around the world.

The Platform’s teaching content places heavy emphasis on the importance of the four tones in Mandarin. Connect uses imaginative games and listening exercises to add colour and fun to the learning process. Students make quick progress in this area.

Dragons Teaching has always used pinyin as an essential tool to help students learn Mandarin. The Platform uses pinyin as a ‘scaffold’ in the early stages and is taught using interactive sound and recognition games to enable students to speak and understand Mandarin.

Connect has built character writing into the online software, which helps students to learn characters and their stroke order. Kung Fu Kingdom, the higher level games area, also tests the recognition of Chinese characters in a fun and imaginative way.

A fun games area for students to self-test their recognition of spoken Mandarin and Chinese characters. Scores are measured in ‘Belts’ and progress is aligned to performance in online exercises and sports-based games. Teachers can also give behaviour points!

All results from the student asynchronous learning is saved real-time in a clear and attractive results area. Teachers can see how their students are progressing and academic leads at schools can keep an eye on overall progress in line with other areas in the curriculum.