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Wenyang Sun; Nuo Xu; Verónica E. Valdez – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
Drawing on a raciolinguistic and AsianCrit lens, we analyze the voices of first-generation Chinese immigrant parents regarding their decisions on whether to enroll their children in Mandarin Chinese dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs. Our findings reveal Chinese immigrant parents' lack of confidence in DLBE programs as a space…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Chinese Americans, Mandarin Chinese, Bilingual Education
Min Chuan Jasmine Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to comprehend the motivations and learning experiences of Chinese Heritage Language Learners (CHLLs) who study in Chinese programs in California public high schools where Chinese American students are under-studied and their voices are not heard. The study used Gardner's Socio-educational Model, Fishman's Reversing…
Descriptors: Native Language, Public Schools, High Schools, Learning Experience
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Steven Langsford; Zebo Xu; Zhenguang G. Cai – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
In the digital age, handwriting literacy has declined to a worrying degree, especially in non-alphabetic writing systems. In particular, Chinese (and also Japanese) handwriters have suffered from character amnesia ([Chinese characters omitted]), where people cannot correctly produce a character though they can recognize it. Though character…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Handwriting, Memory, Adults
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Smith, Sara A.; Li, Zhengjie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Research demonstrates strong associations between psychosocial factors (motivation, attitudes, beliefs), outside of class behavior, and second language (L2) learning, particularly reading achievement [Briggs and Walter 2016. "Read On! Extensive Reading and Young Second Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes;" Masgoret and Gardner…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Student Motivation, Reading Attitudes
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Li Xiang; Hyunjeong Nam – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The study aimed to explore the evidence of first language (L1) mediation in second language (L2) word associations and the L2 learner-related factors affecting the extent of L1 mediation with the following approaches. First, different from previous research, word association tests (WATs) embraced both receptive and productive word associations in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Associative Learning, Chinese
Susan Hua – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study fills a gap in the literature by exploring how Teochew graduates experience language maintenance while enrolled in higher education. Teochew is both an identity and less commonly spoken language that falls within the Chinese umbrella, and little is known about the Teochew population in the U.S as Asian American data is seldom…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Chinese, Native Language, Language Maintenance
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Saranya Pathanasin – rEFLections, 2025
This study approaches multilingualism on Phuket Island by means of a linguistic landscape (LL) analysis. The data in this study consists of 185 photographs of shop signs taken from popular streets on the island. They were analyzed via a mixed-methods approach. It was found that different languages were purposely chosen to indicate or showcase the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Photography, Signs, Ethnic Groups
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Vashti Wai Yu Lee; Lee Her; Peter I. De Costa – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This article presents a narrative inquiry of a Chinese heritage mother to theorize and explicate how historical, relational, and spatial processes impacted her negotiation with power and agency in relation to her own heritage language (HL) identity development. A narrative approach enables us to draw on participant counter-stories against master…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Cultural Background, Bilingual Education, Chinese
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Tang, Xiruo; Zheng, Yongyan – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
This study aims to explore how a group of Chinese American families transcend essentialist thinking through negotiating with different ideological orientations toward their heritage language and how these families' different ideological profiles could influence the home language maintenance. Data were collected through three rounds of…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Heritage Education
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Yizhe Jiang; Francis John Troyan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Despite the range of varieties of Han Chinese, Mandarin is the most widely studied variety in research on Chinese as a heritage language (CHL) around the world. To better understand the role of other varieties of Han Chinese in addition to Mandarin, this article presents a synthesis of research on the learning of Chinese varieties in formal and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Variation, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Aijuan Cun – Language and Education, 2025
The manuscript describes Chinese immigrant children's literacy and identity in online and in-person Chinese heritage language classrooms. The theoretical perspectives on multimodality and positioning theory are utilized as theoretical perspectives. The data were collected with the same heritage language teacher and the students during the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, Immigrants, Children
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Cai Mingjia; Liao Xian – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2025
Word recognition is a fundamental reading skill that relies on various linguistic and cognitive abilities. While executive functions (EF) have gained attention for their importance in developing literacy skills, their interaction with domain-specific skills in facilitating reading among different learner groups remains understudied. This study…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Word Recognition, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Ying Wu; Rita Elaine Silver – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study investigates the subjectivities of tertiary students in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR) of the People's Republic of China. Specifically, we investigate self-reported language practices and attitudes in relation to identities in a language ecology with three prominent languages (Zhuang, Standard Chinese [Putonghua], and…
Descriptors: College Students, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Tairan Qiu – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Using transnational literacies as the theoretical framework, this qualitative case study explores the transnational language and literacy practices of one female China-U.S. transnational adolescent, Meiyi, and her family. The data corpus includes critical ethnographic data generated over 3 years. Through data generation and analysis guided by…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Language Usage, Literacy, Chinese
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Norbert Vanek; Haoruo Zhang – Language Learning, 2024
Event segmentation tests have shown substantial overlaps in how adults recognize starts and endpoints as events unfold. However, far less is known about what role different language systems play in the process. Variations in grammatical aspect have been shown to influence event processing. We tested how closely first language (L1) speakers of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Brain, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
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