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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Chinese Language"”.
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Spatial Distribution of Chinese Language Education and Historical Development of Chinese Language Pedagogy in Higher Education in the United States
… that displays the geographical distribution of Chinese language programs in colleges and universities in the United States, their program starting years, the types of such universities and colleges, and their names and states; and a multimedia essay on the evolution of Chinese language pedagogy …
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Chinese language teachers' socialization into the profession : a comparative study
ABSTRACTCHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS' SOCIALIZATION INTO THE PROFESSION: A COMPARATIVE STUDYbyWenxia Wang This comparative case study investigated how new Chinese language teachers from different linguistic and cultural/ethnic backgrounds (from the U.S., the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan) are …
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Chinese-language Cyberspace: Overseas Chinese Cyber Nationalism and Migrant Identity
… multi-faceted online nationalism manifested by Chinese overseas transnational migrants. It establishes the relationship between migrant nationalism and identity by interrogating the roles that the internet plays in the migrant identity construction process in the New Zealand context. The …
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The Sociocultural Milieux of ‘Chinese’ Language Learning in Belfast: Diaspora and Difference
… dissertation investigates Mandarin and Cantonese language learning and Chinese identity formation amongst young people of Chinese descent in Northern Ireland. It explores their attitude to language learning in domestic and Chinese Language School (CLS) environments and their parents’ and teachers’ …
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A Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective on Pre-service Chinese Language Teachers’ Professional Identity
… to teacher education (Bullough, 1997). Exploring language teachers’ professional identity and what it really means is an important approach to understanding language teachers’ professional development, vis-à-vis how they grow professionally (Beauchamp & Tomas, 2011; Sachs, 2005; Varghese, Morgan, …
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Chinese language teaching facilitated by anthropomorphised technologies: Using chatbots as smart teaching assistants
Amid growing interest in chatbot integration in language education, there is a lack of research on chatbot use within situated teaching contexts, particularly from the perspective of foreign language teachers who are not technology enthusiasts but are shaped by this technological shift. This study …
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The impact on primary school children’s Chinese language learning by using elements of Peking Opera
The Chinese language is gaining increasing importance regionally and internationally. It is considered a substantial learning challenge by a number of writers on its acquisition (e.g. Olmanson 2017). It is important for children in local and regional contexts of Chinese culture to acquire fluency …
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Cultivating Employability Competence: An Exploration Using Capital Theory from the Perspective of Chinese Language Practitioners in the 21st Century
… advancements, particularly in the field of language services, have demonstrated power in both augmenting and replacing human labour in the workplace. While the concept of employability has been extensively explored across a wide range of sectors, empirical research does not conclusively and …
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Chinese Language Family Literacy Program: Impact on Young Children's Literacy Development in Chinese and English
… program targets English for speakers of other languages. However, the differences in English proficiency among parent participants may vary enormously in ways that are not easily predictable. In addition to the differences in parent participants’ English proficiency and their concept and …
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The Effect of Instructional Embodiment Designs on Chinese Language Learning: The Use of Embodied Animation for Beginning Learners of Chinese Characters
… embodied animation on the retention outcomes of Chinese character learning (CCL) for beginning learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL). Chinese characters have three main features: semantic meaning, pronunciation, and written form. Chinese characters are different from English words in …
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Increasing the Number of African American Students in Undergraduate Level Classes of Chinese: A Call to Action
Chinese language is the only ideographic language remaining in the world (Osaka, 1976). It conveys affluent Chinese culture and has great influences on the East Asian countries (Miyake, 2013). In the economic globalization of the world, China's economy and international influence are expanding. For …
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Language Policy and Mandarin Investment of Tertiary Chinese Heritage Language Learners from Dialect Backgrounds in New Zealand
Chinese language encompasses Mandarin and many other dialects that are mutually unintelligible with Mandarin in their spoken forms. Under China’s growing influence and its Mandarin promotion language policy, today’s overseas Chinese language programmes are mainly Mandarin-dominated and enjoy …
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Time-varying networks estimation and Chinese words segmentation
… including time-varying networks estimation and Chinese words segmentation. Chapter 1 introduces the background of the time-varying networks and the structure of Chinese language, followed by the motivations and goals for the research work. In many biomedical and social science studies, it is …
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Culture Teaching and Learning in an Advanced Placement Chinese Course
… significance of teaching culture in the foreign language classroom has been widely acknowledged. However, it remains a challenge for language teachers to properly incorporate culture teaching into language teaching. Chinese language teachers in the United States also encounter the challenge of …
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Towards a Bourdieuian understanding of the South Asian language minorities' language acquisition in Hong Kong
The inadequacy of Chinese language skills of the South Asian language minorities has raised concerns among educators and policymakers in recent years. Further to the notification given by the Equal Opportunities Commission to the Education Bureau of its concerns about the education of …
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A Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Motivation and Attitudes towards the Learning of Mandarin Chinese in the U.S.: Secondary School Students' Perceptions
… and their parents' perspectives on the students' Chinese language learning experiences. It aimed to provide a better understanding of what motivates secondary school level students in the U.S. to learn Chinese, as well as their attitudes towards the Chinese language, the Chinese culture, and …
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