Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese: Review and Recommendations

Abstract

In the age of experience economy, students are also attaching greater importance to enlightening and entertaining experience in learning. Earlier studies on mobile learning experience have generated increasing amount of knowledge on experience-oriented learning. Through reviewing earlier studies on mobile experience in learning Chinese as a second language and recommending dimensions and directions for further studies, this chapter aims at inviting further studies on how to enhance mobile learning experience in general by applying the six stages of mobile experience, assisted with the 3M (mapping, measuring, and modeling) approach with a focus on the gap between the normative and the empirical dimensions of mobile experience in learning Chinese in the context of Confucius Institutes around the world.