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Wu, Wen-Chi; Lin, I.-Ting; Chen Hsieh, Jun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
The knowledge of English idioms is essential for advanced English learning and application, particularly for English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners. While studies have shown the benefits of mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) to facilitate English learning, few studies have examined the factors that may influence MALL in light of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Language Patterns, Learning Modalities
Ngan, Yuen-Wan; Kong, Wai-ping – 1999
A study investigated the role of audience awareness in translation of lexical items, specifically as it may affect translation from English to Chinese. The audiences, or readership, in this case is defined as readers from three different regions in which Chinese is used predominantly: Hong Kong; mainland China; and Taiwan. The varieties of Chinese…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Malzahn, Manfred – 1997
A comparison of the linguistic contexts of Scotland and Taiwan focuses on three aspects: (1) existence of two linguistic codes belonging to the same language family; (2) the status of one of those languages as the standard set by a larger, more powerful neighbor from whose perspective any other variety is likely to look like a dialect; and (3) the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, English, Figurative Language