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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Chinese as a Foreign Language"”.
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A classroom-based study of Chinese as a Foreign Language pronunciation targeting syllables with final `-i'
As a less commonly taught language in the U.S., relatively little research has been done on the acquisition of segmental sounds in Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL), particularly at the secondary level. This study targeted a unique set of status-bearing syllables in Chinese described in the …
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Vocabulary Acquisition in CFL (Chinese as a Foreign Language) Contexts: a Correlation of Performance and Strategy Use
The present study was anchored in an inquiry of second language Chinese vocabulary acquisition and learning Chinese as a foreign language. It investigated character density in L2 Chinese vocabulary recognition and production: low character density recognition, high character density recognition, …
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Strategies in the Writing of Chinese Characters by Intermediate and Advanced Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language
… for distinguishing between performance-based slips of the pen and competence-based knowledge errors is given. Implications for pedagogy and areas of future research are also discussed.
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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP COMPONENTS AND PROGRAM OUTCOMES IN CHINESE-AS-A-FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PROGRAMS FOR PRE-K TO 12 LEARNERS IN THE UNITED STATES
In the United States, language education programs are increasingly popular and have expanded considerably in recent years. At the same time, very little data exists on the leadership practices that have guided the most successful language education programs (Forman, 2015; Hutton, 2018; Rocque et …
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Different or similar: patterns of lexical cohesion in Chinese non-narrative text and their applications in the study of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language-A corpus-based contrastive study
… patterns of lexical, cohesive devices in Chinese argument texts by two groups of writers: native speakers and learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (hereafter CFL). The purposes of the research are twofold: first to inform instruction in the writing of extended Chinese texts to CFL …
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Interpreting Chinese Zero Anaphors Within Topic Continuity
… to be an alternative theory for interpreting Chinese zero anaphors. They can be applied in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and in translations between Chinese and other languages, such as English, in which the phenomenon of zero anaphor does not exist.
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Pragmatic and cultural information in a Chinese-English learner's dictionary
The number of students learning Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) has shown a steady and substantial increase over the past few decades. However, the CFL students who choose to use Chinese-English dictionaries have relied on inadequate tools, inasmuch as these tools are either geared toward …
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Understanding SLA through peer interactions in a Chinese classroom: A sociocultural perspective
<p>Second language learning and development is a complex process that is situated in sociocultural settings. Classrooms provide such daily life settings in which language acquisition occurs via social interactions among peers and the instructor as well as other mediated means. The purpose of this …
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The Dominant Listening Strategy of Low-Proficiency Level Learners of Mandarin Chinese: Bottom-Up Processing or Top-Down Processing
Listening comprehension has been the forgotten skill in second language acquisition. However, in recent years, more and more studies have focused on listening comprehension and now acknowledge its importance in language acquisition. Empirical studies have explored how listeners use the two main …
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Teaching Chinese in a U.S. elementary school: identity issues and social cultural challenges
Learning Chinese as a foreign language is becoming popular in the United States with the growing Chinese economy and influence. In this qualitative case study I have followed a native Chinese teacher who took up citizenship in the United States, Dr. Lin, and the Mandarin Chinese language program …
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Usage-based Analysis of Schematic and Multifunctional Verb Argument Constructions in Three Contrasting Corpora: A Native Chinese Corpus, a CFL Textbook Corpus and a Chinese Learner Corpus
The increasing use of learner corpora in second language acquisition (SLA) research has led to a growing body of evidence that supports the usage-based construction grammar approach to language learning. This approach suggests that language development is strongly influenced by statistical …
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Use of Verb-Noun Collocations by Advanced Learners of Chinese
The important role of collocations has been widely accepted in the current literature, but to date there are still relatively few studies on language learners’ collocation knowledge and development within different local contexts. The current study intends to contribute to the literature by …
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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
The focus of this study was an investigation of the effects of 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 …
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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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Student Approaches to Learning Chinese Vocabulary
… the strategies that native English speakers use as they learn to speak and write Chinese vocabulary words in the first year of an elementary Chinese class. The main research question was: what strategies do native English-speaking beginning learners of Chinese use to learn Chinese vocabulary …
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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 …