Innovation in Language Learning

In China, many universities students have lost their passion in learning English as a second language. For post-graduate students in Harbin Institute of Technology, the classroom learning time has been set to only 32 hours. The aim of this E-magazine project is to promote great interests to the students so that they are willing to learn themselves after class by reading the E-magazines. Each issue of the E-magazines has the same columns but with a different topic. It contains multi-media columns such as Filming Dubbing, Picture Reading, Story-telling and Tests, Famous Quotations, Famous Speech, Chicken Soup for the Soul and Beautiful Melody. Flash technology and computer animations are the two main art forms of ICT technologies used in the issues. Magazines are very user-friendly. They are all executive files (.exe files). Readers don’t need any advanced computer skills. They only double-click it. It doesn’t need the Internet connections either. The contents of the magazines are linked to classroom activities. The project won first prize at the 14th Chinese National CAI Project Competition in 2013.