I spoke to our Chinese teachers about the applications they use on the iPads, donated from the PTA, to help our children learn Chinese at school. Please note that some are generic applications that have uses across all curriculum areas.
They recommended the following applications (in no particular order);
1. ScreenChomp and Sock Puppets – mostly for listening and speaking activities (Y1 to Y6)
2. Drawing Pad, for writing (Y1Y2)
3. WordTracer-CN as a dictionary (Y3 to Y6)
4. Notes, for writing (Y3 to Y6). An excellent app to reinforce the Chinese character writing principle (children need to follow the right stroke order to get the right characters on the handwriting mode.)
5. Pinyin (Y3 to Y6)
6. Pages (writing)
7. Pleco and KTdict C-E (Chinese dictionaries)
8. ChinesePad (writing)
