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Gold Award

(As also Hong Kong ICT Awards 2006: eLearning Grand Award)
 
Gowell Software Ltd
www.gowell.com

GoChinese Online Chinese Learning Platform

GoChinese is an easy-to-use, web-based educational platform that allows users to click or highlight any Chinese text to hear its Putonghua pronunciation as well as place the cursor over the text to view its definition. Its Hanyu Pinyin phonetics and Traditional and Simplified character forms are displayed and other learning features, including online assessment, are also supported. GoChinese has been effective in supporting both native and non-native learners of Putonghua Chinese.

This platform is unique in that it is entirely engine-driven, based on a text-to-speech module, 250,000-word Chinese-English dictionary database and linguistic engines. As a result, none of the spoken voice or definitions displayed need to be pre-recorded and GoChinese can effectively deliver courses, allow teachers to create lessons/exercises on the same platform as well as enable learners to study from any self-sourced content that they submit.

GoChinese does not require any installations or plug-ins to use. Its performance is optimized, benefiting from statistically-based placement of sound files and learning outputs. Moreover, GoChinese is highly scalable, with its flexible design supporting easy modification for additional bilingual support and the teaching of other languages.
 
Comments from Judging Panel
The company has deployed its extremely strong linguistic expertise in combination with a very practical application of IT, and the result is an excellent tool for teaching and learning languages. The platform can be adapted to provide a successful learning environment for other non-alphabetic and other languages.
 
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Hong Kong ICT Awards 2006: eLearning Award
Gold Award Bronze Award Certificate of Merit