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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Chinese speakers"”.
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Does L1 transfer influence Chinese speakers' intuition of adjective ordering in English
… L1 influence on English adjective ordering among Chinese ESL learners. We hypothesized that if there was a certain adjective ordering ""rule"" existing in both Chinese and English, it would facilitate Chinese ESL learners' performance on producing such order in English. The results of our …
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A study of intercultural discourse between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians
Intercultural communication between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians is receiving ever-increasing attention in many fields. These fields include intercultural communication. English language teaching, education and business. This study approached the intercultural …
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Use of the “ba” construction in Heritage Chinese speakers and L2 speakers of Chinese
… in using the ba construction in heritage Chinese speak-ers and L2 speakers of Chinese. The study compares the use and knowledge of the ba con-struction by L1 native speakers, heritage speakers (HL), and L2 learners of Mandarin Chi-nese. Heritage language speakers are exposed to minority …
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(Im)politeness in email communication: how English speakers and Chinese speakers negotiate meanings and develop intercultural (mis)understandings
This thesis looks at the way in which Chinese and English speakers employ (im)politeness strategies in their emails to develop intercultural understanding. From a theoretical perspective, this thesis contributes to the discussions of intercultural communication in relation to the negotiation of …
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Text-Picture Integration during Inferential Processing by L1 and L2 English and Chinese Speakers: Individual Differences and Script Effects
… inference processing by L1 and L2 English and Chinese speakers, which serves as a background for further study on cross-codal anaphoric inferential processing. Interesting results were revealed. First, concerning the controversy on Chinese anaphora resolution, our results support the theory …
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L1 and L2 Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese Speakers: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading Times and Event-Related Potentials
… While previous studies have shown that native speakers (L1) employ both incremental and predictive processing in real time (e.g., Clifton & Frazier, 1989; Altmann & Kamide, 1999), debates persist regarding how second language speakers (L2) process sentences in real time and whether their …
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Past tense marking in Chinese-English interlanguage.
… past tense marking in the interlanguage (IL) of Chinese speakers of English. Following the assumptions of Hawkins & Lizska, (2003), it is assumed that unlike native speakers of English, Chinese speakers of English have a higher level of optionality within the past tense marking of their grammars. …
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Guidebook for ESL Teachers of Chinese Students
<p>There are currently many Chinese speakers studying and working in the United States. Some of them find English pronunciation to be very challenging. The Guidebook is meant to be a tool for the teachers of Chinese speaking ESL students. English language instruction in China is often teacher …
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An online system for entering and annotating non-native Mandarin Chinese speech for language teaching
… system for the annotation of non-native Mandarin Chinese speech by native Chinese speakers. This system will allow speech recognition researchers to easily generate a corpus of labeled non-native speech. We have five native Chinese speakers test the annotation system on a sample bank of 250 …
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The effects of speaking rate and pausing on comprehensibility of non-native English
… of second language (L2) speech. Twenty advanced Chinese speakers of English were audio-recorded as they read 3 short airline flight announcement passages. For each passage, the speakers adjusted their speech based on the instructions provided (i.e., natural speed, slightly slower speed, and …
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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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Chinese Scrabble : a web-based speech-enabled game for Chinese vocabulary building
… of this thesis is a web-based language game Chinese Scrabble, whose main objective is to help students of Chinese to practice speaking, to learn and review vocabulary both in pinyin and in Chinese characters. The game was intended to be very flexible and customizable in order to accommodate a …
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The Effects of Chinese and Spanish Writing Systems on L2 English Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition
… writing system makes unique demands on native speakers, resulting in different cognitive processes. This research examines the visual and phonological processes used by native Spanish and Chinese speakers and how these processes affect their acquisition of English vocabulary and spelling. …
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Chinese and Australian conversational styles: A comparative sociolinguistic study of overlap and listener response
… the use of overlap and listener response by Chinese and Australian speakers in their respective intracultural conversations, that is, in conversations between Chinese interlocutors in Mandarin Chinese and between Australians in Australian English. The main purpose of this study is to locate …
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The relationship of language orientation and racial/ethnic attitude among Chinese-American primary grade children
… relationship between the language orientation of Chinese-American primary-grade children in the San Francisco Unified School District and their racial/ethnic attitude. Generally, Chinese-Americans are monolingual Chinese speakers (MCS), monolingual English speakers (BECS). These three linguistic …
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Aspiration in Chinese
This dissertation studies aspiration in Chinese in these four areas: the temporal relationships between aspiration and the vowel of the syllable, the perception of aspiration, the correlation between pitch and aspiration, and the role of aspiration in a historical change in Chinese. Data based on …
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Invitations in American English and Mandarin Chinese
… and differences in the invitation patterns of speakers of American English and Mandarin Chinese with two research questions in mind: 1) To what extent do native American English and Mandarin Chinese speakers differ in making invitations? 2) To what extent is the use of an initial ambiguous …
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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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DEVELOPING THINKING IN L2 SPEAKING: EVIDENCE FROM SPATIAL-TEMPORAL SYSTEM IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH LEARNERS
… how L1 thinking influences L2 speaking in Chinese native speakers learning English and English native speakers learning Chinese. It examines (a) habitual language use of spatial and temporal referents cross-linguistically and (b) dynamic changes of spatial and spatial-temporal expressions …
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PressToPronounce : an output-oriented approach to mobile language learning
… a mobile application that helps native Mandarin Chinese speakers practice English speaking skills. Ideas from second language acquisition studies and persuasive technology strategies guided the design of short, focused, user-centered exercises to help learners develop their competency of the …
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