[Submit]QESS: Enhancing Chinese Disciplinary Writing with Corpus Data for the Social Sciences

This project aims to use Moodle as a corpus-based tool to support Chinese academic writing activities for the social science discipline. Specifically, two Moodle plugin tools will be used: Glossary and Quiz. A corpus-driven glossary will be built to document the Chinese written expressions that social science students frequently used in their research reports. Moodle quizzes that support automated lexical mapping are also used. When students submit their essay drafts to those quizzes, the system can map specific terms found in the submitted responses to the items in the corpus glossary. The lexical mapping proposed in this project creates inductive learning opportunities whereby students analyze corpora data to assist the Chinese academic writing process.

本項目以 Moodle 作為語料工具，支援社會科學學科的漢語學術寫作活動。項目將使用兩個 Moodle 外掛程式：詞彙表和測驗。詞彙表將記錄社會科學學生在研究報告中經常使用的詞彙並介紹其內容，測驗則提供詞彙影射功能。當學生將論文提交到這些測驗時，系統可以從所提交的回應中找出特定術語，然後影射到語料庫詞彙表中的詞彙介紹，這樣同學就可以了解有關詞彙表的意思，有利寫作，也幫他們面對寫作時遇到的挑戰。詞彙表和測驗將為同學提供歸納學習的機會，為同學的學術寫作技能帶來正面影響，使他們具備在社會科學領域取得所須技能。