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Cáceres-Lorenzo, MTeresa – Language Awareness, 2015
The present research aims to identify the factors involved in the successful completion of the "Young Chinese Test" 2-A1 (YCT 2-A1) at Spanish Confucius Institute (Canary Islands). Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) entails several learning difficulties compared with other European languages. This study was conducted on 61 monolingual…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Wang, Limei; Ladegaard, Hans J. – Language Awareness, 2008
This paper is concerned with young people's perceptions and reported use of the two language varieties that co-exist in the urban centre of Guangzhou in southern China, Putonghua (P) and Cantonese (C). P is a typical H-variety, promoted by the government and used as a lingua franca throughout China; C is the local L-variety but it also has some…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Variation, Reputation, Language Attitudes