The Study of Case-Based Learning Method in Intermediate Business Chinese Teaching

Abstract

There are 4 purposes of this research: (1)Comparing student's oral communication ability between Traditional Teaching Method and Case-Based Learning Method; (2)Comparing student's reading ability between Traditional Teaching Method and Case-Based Learning Method; (3)Comparing student's writing ability between Traditional Teaching Method and Case-Based Learning Method; (4)Comparing student's satisfaction toward teachers between Traditional Teaching Method and Case-Based Learning Method.

The research participant is a purposeful sampling of 40 international students majoring in Chinese language and literature in the freshman year. They have studied Elementary Business Chinese courses in Guangxi Normal University for Nationalities in first semester of the freshman year. The data collection tools include: (1)Oral Communication Ability Test; (2)Reading Ability Test; (3)Writing Ability Test; (4)student's satisfaction toward teachers. The author mainly used methods such as mean value, standard deviation, frequency，independent sample t-test and descriptive statistics for statistics.

The research results show that: (1)Comparing student's oral communication ability between Traditional Teaching Method and Case-Based Learning Method, it is differently with the statistically at 0.05 level, and Case-Based Learning Method shows higher mean score; (2)Comparing student's reading ability between Traditional Teaching Method and Case-Based Learning Method, it is differently with the statistically at 0.05 level, and Case-Based Learning Method shows higher mean score; (3)Comparing student's writing ability between Traditional Teaching Method and Case-Based Learning Method, it is differently with the statistically at 0.05 level, and Case-Based Learning Method shows higher mean score; (4)Comparing student's satisfaction toward teachers between Traditional Teaching Method and Case-Based Learning Method, it is differently with the statistically at 0.05 level, and Case-Based Learning Method shows higher mean score.

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