Chinese characters often categorized as an ideographic or
logographic writing systems. In comparison, Chinese
characters have different writing systems with alphabetical
writing systems. Learners show unsatisfactory results due to
the complexity of orthographic structure in Chinese
characters which also led to a negative impact on
Mandarin learning. Thus, an educational card game,
namely “Chinese Character Battle (CCB)” was designed for
Mandarin learners to learn Chinese characters. This
educational card game was implemented in Mandarin as
Foreign Language (MFL) classroom for this preliminary study
as a step to explore users’ perceptions about CCB and the
impact of CCB in Chinese character recognition. An online
survey, pre-test, and post-test were used to achieve the
objectives of this study. A recorded video of “How to Play
CCB” was shared with participants prior to the use of CCB.
Non-native Chinese learners from University Teknologi Mara,
Sarawak branch, Mukah campus participate in this study.
The findings of this study revealed that: (1) participants
responded positively towards the use of CCB; (2) the
implementation of CCB showed positive impact on Chinese
character recognition. Hence, it could be concluded that
CCB is an effective and useful supplementary learning tool
for Mandarin learners to improve their Chinese character
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