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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Chinese-English"”.
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Target-Dominant Chinese-English Machine Translation
… spoken by the most people in today's world, Chinese will play an important role in information exchange in the future. Therefore, we need an efficient and practical means to access the increasingly large volume of Chinese data. This thesis describes a target-dominant Chinese-English machine …
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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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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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OVERCOMING INTERCULTURAL CHALLENGES IN INTERPRETING: A CASE STUDY ON CHINESE-ENGLISH CONFERENCE INTERPRETING
… case study examines the role of culture in Chinese-English conference interpreting. Given that there has been a lack of empirical research in understanding the role of culture in conference interpreting through the lens of intercultural communication frameworks, we know relatively little …
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Language-switching cost in Chinese-English bilingual reading comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking
… the cognitive cost brought by code-switching in Chinese-English bilinguals via eye-tracking. More specifically, this experiment determines the source of the baseline cost of language-switching in inter-sentential code-switching. Results have shown that compared with the general switch in …
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Language-switching cost in Chinese-English bilingual reading comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Effective Techniques for Teaching Phrasal Verbs to Improve Communicate Competence of Chinese English learners
… Verbs to Improve Communicate Competence of Chinese English learners </strong></p>
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Apology behavior: A comparison between native speakers of American English and Chinese English learners
… study has been done with native speakers of Chinese. The present study is motivated by a series of studies done by Olshtain and Cohen on· apology behavior, and is an attempt a) to expand the scope of the study of apology behavior to include a non-western language; b) to determine the …
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Framing Games: an Exploration Into the Speaking Activity of a Chinese-English Bilingual Child
… and tape recorded playing a commercial game in Chinese with her mother, and in English with her father. Both activity frames and conceptual frames were analyzed toward answering (1) what frames were performed during game play (2) how those frames differed between Chinese and English (3) what …
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Pre-service Chinese English as A Foreign Language (EFL) Teachers Perceptions about Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching
… be applied in primary and secondary school English education by issuing the New Curriculum early in 2001 to develop learners competence of using the language; however, implementation of CLT is still a big challenge confronting pre-service Chinese EFL teachers who experienced the traditional …
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LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY, AND EQUITY IN CHINESE-ENGLISH DUAL LANGUAGE BILINGUAL EDUCATION: FROM CURRICULUM TO CLASSROOM PRACTICES TO STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Unlike most research on Chinese-English Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programs, which primarily examines one-way models serving English-dominant, middle-class children (e.g., Tian, 2020; Zheng, 2020), this dissertation investigates a different context—an all-minority student program in …
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Language strategies along the One Belt One Road Initiative : Language and International Trade with Emphasis on the Chinese, English and Russian languages
… Asia are affected by the policies enacted by the Chinese and Russian governments.
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Fostering Strategic Second-Language Writers: A Study of Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) Writers’ Self-Regulated Learning Strategies, Self-Efficacy and Motivational Beliefs
… One aimed to document the current situation of Chinese students' reported use of SRL strategies and their perceived motivational beliefs and self-efficacy; and to investigate how these factors related to writing performance. Data were collected from undergraduate English-major students (N = 701) …
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Translation students' use of dictionaries: a Hong Kong case study for Chinese to English translation
… students from five local universities for Chinese to English translation, and the dictionary consultation process of four respondents. Triangulation methods were employed: questionnaire survey, interview, think-aloud protocol, and performance exercise. A coding system for think-aloud …
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Teacher Development for English Language Teaching in China: Based on English Language Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in New Zealand
This study inquired into English language teachers’ beliefs and practices in China and in New Zealand, and explored the process of using New Zealand English language teachers’ beliefs and practices as a stimulus in promoting and developing Chinese English language teachers’ understanding of English …
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Acquisition of Causative Directed Manner of Motion by English-speaking Learners of Chinese
This study aims to explore how English-speaking learners of Chinese acquire directed manner of motion. The thesis consists of six chapters with three major parts: firstly, a linguistic analysis to account for the Chinese-English differences in licensing causative directed manner of motion events; …
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Lexical Organisation in Chinese Spoken Word Production: Evidence from Studies of Homophones
… the functional lexical organisation in Mandarin Chinese spoken word production. Two main theoretical issues were investigated: The lexical representations of homophones in Chinese, and how activation is transmitted from lexical to phonological levels in Chinese spoken word production. The results …
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