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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Mandarin speaking"”.
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The Disfluency Loci of Stuttering and Nonstuttering Mandarin -Speaking Preschool Children and Adults
This study was partly supported by grant # R01-DC00459 from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Principal Investigator: Ehud Yairi.
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To identify issues that impact upon the acculturation and adaptation of Chinese Mandarin-speaking students taking undergraduate studies in British business schools
… upon the acculturation and adaptation of Chinese Mandarin-speaking students during their business education at undergraduate level in the UK, so as to provide implications for all the stakeholders, including Chinese students, academics, and business schools, towards developing a more satisfying …
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Working in a Second Language
<p>Research on the perceptions that native Mandarin speaking employees have about their personal ability to communicate with their native English speaking co-workers and the perceptions the native English speaking employees have about the native Mandarin speaking coworkers' ability to communicate …
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How non-native speakers make do with words when doing things with words : an analysis of communication strategies in storytelling by Mandarin-speaking learners of English
This study employs a conversation analysis (CA) approach, which is concerned with the analysis of closely transcribed examples of actual talk recorded in naturally occurring settings. The study aims to describe and analyse sequences of actions generated by Native Speakers( NS) and Non-Native …
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Social and Cultural Capital Across Contexts: Mandarin-Speaking English Language Learning Children's First and Second Language Literacy Learning at Home, in the Community, and in Multiple Classrooms
In the three classrooms where English was the language of instruction, the literacy practices provided by the ESL teacher appeared to be more effective in increasing ELLs' L2 linguistic capital due to her explicit instruction on literacy components, use of accommodated speech, and giving …
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Challenges Facing First Year Chinese International Students In a California Private School
<p>Mandarin speaking, mainland Chinese secondary students enrolled in grades nine through twelve make up almost 50% of America's international student population (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2015). According to the literature, these students face unique challenges in their education: …
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Understanding the Psychosocial Impact of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: a Qualitative Analysis of Focus Groups
… not directly-exposed agencies and Spanish- and Mandarin-speaking individuals being served by not directly-exposed agencies. Twenty-one focus groups with a total of 140 participants were conducted one to two years after 9/11. Transcribed focus group passages were coded into themes using …
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"Education at last! Taiwanese grandmothers ""go to school"""
… older adults and we know even less of minority-speaking elders' experiences of linguistic marginalization in contemporary communicative milieus. In this ethnographic and discourse-analytic study, I examine the language socialization of non-Mandarin-speaking elderly Taiwanese women in senior …
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The Effect of Non-native Dialect on Speech Recognition Threshold for Native Mandarin Speakers
… tested in a second dialect. Thirty-two native Mandarin-speaking subjects (sixteen from mainland China and sixteen from Taiwan) participated in speech recognition threshold testing in both dialects to see whether using non-native dialect test materials resulted in a significantly lower score. In …
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Acquisition of English morphosyntax : evidence from a Chinese-speaking child
… longitudinal English production from Diany, a Mandarin-speaking child, starting from the second week Diany arrived in the U.S.A. (age 4;9). The study is particularly interested in whether Diany’s acquisition of verbal morphemes and verb movement supports relevant hypotheses in the literature. …
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Discrimination of Tone Contrasts in Mandarin Disyllables by Naïve American English Listeners
<p>The present study examined the perception of Mandarin disyllabic tones by inexperienced American English speakers. Participants heard two naturally-produced Mandarin disyllables, and indicated if the two were the same or different. A small native Mandarin-speaking control group participated as …
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Effects of Bilingualism on Development of Facets of Phonological Competence
In three empirical studies, the participants were Mandarin-speaking kindergarteners, first-graders and second-graders with different degrees of exposure to Southern-Min, a heritage language spoken in Taiwan. Southern-Min and Mandarin are typologically related, but are mutually unintelligible. …
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Morphological Competence in English: Comparing Advanced L2 and L3 English Learners
… compares morphological competence in advanced Mandarin-speaking second-language (L2) learners (n=63) and Uyghur-speaking third-language (L3) learners (n=40) of English, focusing on derivational word parts knowledge, morphological awareness, and processing ability. Existing research on L2 …
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Cross-regional word duration patterns in Mandarin
… dissertation explores the duration patterns of Mandarin words among three Mandarin dialectal regions---Beijing, Taiwan, and Malaysia. This dissertation brings diverse methodologies on speech data collection, annotation, and corpus construction to investigate linguistic pattern. Three speech …
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The Influence of Orthographic Experiences on the Development of Functional Phonological Unit in Spoken Word Production
… unit in spoken word production in native Mandarin-speaking children. Functional phonological unit refers to the first selectable phonological unit after lexical selection in the planning of spoken word production. Previous research has shown that the acquisition of orthographic knowledge …
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Learning novel vowel contrasts: experimental methods in classroom applications
… vowel contrasts in real-word minimal pairs. Mandarin speaking participants made significant gains in the nonce-word post-test regardless of training paradigm; Korean participants made significant gains in nonce words in Paradigms A, B, and C but not D. Analysis of the test items indicated …
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Grammatical productivity in Mandarin resultative verb compounds
The dissertation investigated the acquisition of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds (RVCs) as a window into the development of grammatical productivity. The project combined exploration of observational data, language elicitation/priming tasks with real words, and novel word learning/testing …
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Reading in Mandarin and English: Using Reading Miscue Inventory and Retrospective Miscue Analysis with Adult English Language Learners
… college ELLs' reading processes in their native Mandarin language and the English language. The purpose of this case study is 1) to discover the reading process of five native-Mandarin-speaking adult ELLs at a large Midwestern university; 2) to learn their perceptions of reading; and 3) to learn …
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