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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Pinyin"”.
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The effectiveness of tonal spelling in learning Mandarin Chinese
… Chinese words accurately. Many textbooks use ""Pinyin,"" (the romanization system of mainland China) which uses superscript marks to indicate tones. Yuen Ren Chao (1964, p. 11) asserted that using spelling to indicate tone served as a more powerful tool for tone recall, and he consequently …
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A Longitudinal Analysis of the Development of Mandarin Chinese in Fourth Grade Chinese Immersion
… aimed to understand how digital writing using Pinyin input might support development of literacy skills in Chinese immersion. In this study, <em>the effects of a digital text messaging curriculum</em> on freewriting were investigated. It was hypothesized that use of digital Pinyin input would …
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Chinese Scrabble : a web-based speech-enabled game for Chinese vocabulary building
… 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 wide range of users on a long-term basis. As a part of the project, we conveyed a pilot user study with both students of Chinese …
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Speling "Successful" Sucesfuly: Statistical Learning in Spelling
… least accurately, and greater knowledge of pinyin, a phoneme-based writing system, was associated with higher nonword spelling accuracy. These and other findings reflect how linguistic factors and language background moderate the role of statistical learning and context in spelling.
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A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic analysis of deaf reading practices in China: case studies using teacher interviews and classroom observations
… two very different scripts- one alphabetic (Pinyin) and another non-alphabetic (Simplified Chinese characters). Furthermore, we must consider the relationship between languages in the child’s environment (e.g. a tonal spoken language and a signed language) and the varying scripts (alphabetic …
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The Influence of Orthographic Experiences on the Development of Functional Phonological Unit in Spoken Word Production
… were comparatively more exposed to alphabetic Pinyin and had very limited Chinese character knowledge, 2) Grade 2 and Grade 4 children, who had better character knowledge and more exposure to characters, and 3) adult readers, who had the highest level of character knowledge and the most …
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The nature and value of teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese as a school subject in South Africa: a case study of language and literacy ideologies in a public secondary school in South Africa
… approach, which either over-relies on pinyin (i.e., phone9c system for transcribing Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet) at the expense of the teaching and learning of Chinese characters or conceptualises Chinese characters as arbitrary symbols simply reproducing the spoken …