This study examines the intricate relationship between language ideology, Taiwanese identity, and the adoption of the romanized Taiwanese system (Pe?h-oe-ji) within the Taiwanese language (Tâigí) speaking community, against the predominance of Mandarin. It explores the multifaceted motivations of Tâigí users for preferring Pe?h-oe-ji, including…

This study explores the effectiveness of online Chinese language courses, focusing on the development of listening comprehension and Mandarin pinyin pronunciation skills among Chinese language students at the Faculty of Education, Uttaradit Rajabhat University. Utilizing a systematic approach, the research employed a pre-test and post-test design…

This case study investigates the reading processes of two bilingual teachers who speak English as a second language and use different first languages--Mandarin Chinese and Korean. The two participants read researcher-selected digital texts in English and in their respective first language, retold the texts, and answered comprehension questions…

The perception of non-native speech sounds is heavily influenced by the acoustic cues that are relevant for differentiating members of a listener's native (L1) phonological contrasts. Many studies of both (naive) non-native and (not naive) second language (L2) speech perception implicitly assume continuity in a listener's habits of…

In order to preserve distinctive cultures, people anxiously figure out writing systems of their languages as recording tools. Mandarin, Taiwanese and Hakka languages are three major and the most popular dialects of Han languages spoken in Chinese society. Their writing systems are all in Han characters. Various and independent phonetic…

Teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL) is increasingly becoming a mainstream profession and an independent academic discipline. However, there is little research in CALL targeting the Chinese language to date. This research attempts to show how a CALL system can be constructed following the unique properties of the Chinese language so it…

This article serves as a primer to Mandarin Chinese mainly for chemical practitioners who have no familiarity with the Mandarin Chinese language and who may travel to East Asia during their career or work in collaboration with Chinese-speaking people. Eight vocabulary lists (given in English, written Chinese, and Pinyin romanization) feature…

Background: Previous research has shown a relationship between speech perception and dyslexia in alphabetic writing. In these studies speech perception was measured using phonemes, a prominent feature of alphabetic languages. Given the primary importance of lexical tone in Chinese language processing, we tested the extent to which lexical tone and…

This paper describes how Chinese-English bilinguals in Taiwan use their languages in asynchronous computer-mediated communication, specifically, via Bulletin Board System (BBS) and email. The main data includes two types: emails collected from a social network and postings collected from two BBS websites. By examining patterns of language choice…

We examined the effects of a tutoring package (verbal modeling, prompts, and contingent praise/Chinese conversations with the tutor) on the performance of a college student's Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. The effects of the tutoring package were analyzed using a multiple baseline design across two sets of 50 Chinese characters. The tutoring…

THIS CHINESE-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY IS THE AUTHORIZED REVISION AND EXPANSION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT DICTIONARY OF 1945. IT WAS PRIMARILY WRITTEN FOR USE BY STUDENTS OF COLLOQUIAL MANDARIN ON THE INTERMEDIATE LEVEL AND SERVES AS A TOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS AND AS A GENERAL GRAMMATICAL REFERENCE GUIDE…

THIS TEXT IS A THOROUGH REVISION AND EXPANSION OF M. GARDNER TEWKSBURY'S "SPEAK CHINESE" OF 1948. THE 24 LESSONS OF THE EARLIER TEXT HAVE BEEN REGROUPED INTO 20 AND THE VOCABULARY NOW INCLUDES 850 ITEMS. WHEN USED WITH THE EXERCISES IN THE ACCOMPANYING "STUDENT'S WORKBOOK" THE TEXT IS SUITABLE FOR INTENSIVE COURSES AS WELL AS…

THIS TWO-VOLUME TEXT IS A SEQUEL TO "BEGINNING CHINESE READER" AND IS CLOSELY CORRELATED WITH "BEGINNING CHINESE" AND "ADVANCED CHINESE," ALL BY THE SAME AUTHOR. INTRODUCED IN THE 30 LESSONS ARE 400 NEW CHARACTERS, 2,500 COMPOUNDS, AND ABOUT 200,000 CHARACTERS OF RUNNING TEXT. THE CHARACTERS ARE INTRODUCED THROUGH A…

THE DRILLS AND EXERCISES IN THIS WORKBOOK ARE CORRELATED WITH THE 20 LESSONS IN THE TEXT. TYPICAL OF THE EXERCISES INCLUDED ARE--VOCABULARY DRILLS, PATTERN DRILLS, QUESTION AND ANSWER DRILLS, AND ENGLISH TO MANDARIN TRANSLATION EXERCISES. AS IN THE TEXT, ALL MANDARIN MATERIAL IS IN YALE ROMANIZATION AND PRIMARILY AURAL-ORAL SKILLS ARE STRESSED.…

THE SECOND OF TWO VOLUMES, PART II CONTAINS LESSONS 16 TO 30 AND SHORT "SUPPLEMENTARY LESSONS ON SIMPLIFIED CHARACTERS." THESE LESSONS, WHICH FOLLOW THE SAME FORMAT AS THOSE IN PART I, ARE APPENDED BY--(1) A STROKE-ORDER CHART FOR THOSE CHARACTERS STUDENTS MIGHT FIND DIFFICULT TO WRITE, (2) THREE SUMMARY CHARTS LISTING CHARACTERS BY…