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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"L2 Chinese"”.
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ASSESSING L2 CHINESE LISTENING USING AUTHENTICATED SPOKEN TEXTS
… of using authenticated spoken texts to test L2 Chinese listening comprehension. The spoken texts used in the study were created using an “authenticating” technique, in which scripted spoken Chinese texts were infused with characteristics of real-world, unscripted spoken Chinese. In the first …
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Chinese Null and Covert Arguments and their Behaviours in L2 Chinese Grammars
… domains may not be acquirable. Abundant L2 studies on the IH have focused on null-subject languages with rich inflection. By contrast, less attention has been paid to L2 acquisition of null arguments in languages with no subject-verb agreement, like Chinese. To fill in this gap, this …
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Chinese sentence-final particles and their behaviours in English speakers' L2 Chinese
This study investigates how seven Chinese sentence-final particles (SFP le, ne1, ma, ne2, ba1, ba2 and a; hereafter SFP) and their features are represented in English speakers’ L2 Chinese. In this research, SFPs are analysed as heads instantiating different positions in the CP domain (Paul 2009, …
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Causativity in Chinese and its representations in English, Japanese and Korean speakers' L2 Chinese grammars.
Chinese does not allow causative alternating unaccusative verbs or object-Experiencer psych verbs. It employs analytical causative (headed by shi 'make'), resultative (headed by de) and compound causative (with an activity predicate V1 and a result predicate V2 forming a V1-V2 compound) …
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Native-nonnative-speaker interaction in second language acquisition: an exploration of turn management, topic management and negotiation strategies in L2 Chinese
… tracked third-level Irish learners (n=10) of Chinese at the intermediate level as a second language (L2). The investigation sought to explore how learners manage topics and employ negotiation strategies when conversing with a native speaker and how they modify their language during the …
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Effects of positive evidence, indirect negative evidence and form-function transparency on second language acquisition: Evidence from L2 Chinese and L2 Thai
This study investigates second language (L2) acquisition of word orders and markers of collectivity in Chinese and Thai. One of the differences between Chinese and Thai is that Chinese nominal phrases appear with a “numeral + classifier + noun” word order while Thai phrases appear as “noun + …
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Knocking tones off their perch: investigating the intelligibility of Anglophone beginner learners of Mandarin Chinese at two secondary schools in the North of England
… of Anglophone beginner learners of Mandarin Chinese at two secondary schools in the North of England Robert Neal Abstract Set within the context of teaching and learning Chinese at two secondary schools in the North of England and adopting a case study research design, the aim of this PhD …
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Vocabulary Acquisition in CFL (Chinese as a Foreign Language) Contexts: a Correlation of Performance and Strategy Use
… 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, low character …
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Native and Non-native Grammars of Chinese Gapping-like Verb Ellipsis
This study sets off to fill in a gap in the L2 research literature on empty categories in Mandarin Chinese by examining second language (L2) acquisition of a type of Chinese verb-less constructions by English-speaking learners. The verb-less constructions in question are Chinese gapping-like …
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Investigating oral performance on controlled versus spontaneous speaking tasks: Implications for second language pedagogy and assessment
Assessment tasks of second language (L2) proficiency can be loosely classified into controlled and spontaneous tasks. While spontaneous tasks are widely accepted as authentic proficiency instruments, they can be time-consuming and labor-intensive to develop, administer, and score. In contrast, …
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Second Language Acquisition and Processing of Chinese bei Passives
… takes a feature-based approach and probes the L2 acquisition and processing of Chinese bei passives by adult English native speakers. In Chinese, an individual passive marker bei is used to mark passive constructions. Whilst historically used as a lexical verb, bei is in the process of being …
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A Longitudinal Analysis of the Development of Mandarin Chinese in Fourth Grade Chinese Immersion
… in these programs, and particularly in Chinese immersion, is less common. In this dissertation, an attempt is made to address this gap in research by exploring the literacy development of fourth grade Chinese immersion students. Participants were 70 students, the entire fourth grade of …
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The acquisition of motion event expressions by Uyghur-Chinese early successive bilinguals
… overlaps and differences (Uyghur vs. Chinese). It is guided by the following two general questions: 1) what is the relative role of universal cognitive factors versus language-specific properties in the early successive bilingual’s acquisition of motion expressions and 2) how …
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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 …