In this study, a sentence interpretation experiment based on Bates and MacWhinney's Competition Model was administered to second language learners of English and Chinese at three different stages of learning. Examined how transfer patterns at the sentence processing level change as a function of proficiency and investigates whether or how transfer…

Summarizes the results of a multidimensional study of a content-based bilingual education program piloted in a suburban high school in Melbourne, Australia in which specialist subjects taught in Vietnamese and Chinese were offered to Grades 9 and 10 students who were optionally enrolled in the Chinese-English or Vietnamese-English stream.…

Immigrant Chinese students (N=400) completed a questionnaire examining the relationship between psychological adjustment and cultural identity as determined by the strength of identification with their own ethnic group and mainstream society. Adolescents who were integrated had higher self-esteem than peers who were separated or marginalized.…

Analyzes writing features conceptually linked to collectivist or individualist orientations among students from Taiwan and the United States. Notes that theses features were indirectness, personal disclosure, use of proverbs and other canonical expressions, collective self, and assertiveness. Makes comparisons across languages and nationalities…

Considers how approaching genres as knowledge structures provides a useful theoretical basis for teaching students to communicate across cultures. Presents an approach that is divided into four interrelated teaching stages: background information, communicative purposes, text structure, and the implications of genre comparisons. Finds teaching the…

Three studies examined adults' generic noun phrases in English and Mandarin Chinese from child-directed speech of caregivers interacting with their toddlers. Found that generic noun phrases were reliably identified in both languages. Generic noun phrases most frequently referred to animals. Non-generic noun phrases were used most frequently for…

Discusses problems when searching the Web for financial information and presents a personal agent that utilizes user profiles and user relevance feedback to search for Chinese Web financial news articles on behalf of users. Explains the development of a Chinese indexing component and describes experiments that measured the performance of the…

Describes nationalistic curriculum reform in Taiwan to reflect "national spirit education" and traditional Chinese cultural values; includes the planning mechanisms, the ideological content, the process of curriculum development, and the approach to curriculum development and evaluation; offers several reasons why the curriculum reform…

Examined effects of ethnolinguistic differences on social proximity between Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking Chinese children in a day care center. Found that each group of children was more likely to be in closer proximity to children speaking their own language than to children speaking the other language during free choice floor- and group-time…

In two masked priming experiments with Chinese characters, orthographic priming effects were observed in lexical decision and naming tasks despite the fact that the primes were phonologically unrelated to the target characters. Data suggest that the recovery of lexical information for Chinese characters does not depend on the prior activation of…

Investigates the design differences between Chinese and English language versions of Web sites based on evidence gathered from Chinese academic Web sites. Through surveying and interviewing university Webmasters from Mainland China and Taiwan, this study seeks to gain real-life insights into the design environment of multilingual Web development.…

This study investigated how two readers of Mandarin with differing reading-proficiency skills interacted with a narrative passage, as well as what knowledge they brought to and made use of while reading the text. The perspectives of reading comprehension, transactional theory and social-cognitive models of reading served as this study's…

To understand parental expectations in Chinese immigrant families in Canada, this qualitative study intends to uncover a folk theory grounded in the perspectives and experiences of a group of recent Chinese immigrant parents and children. As a tradition, the parents emphasize the importance of school achievement and moral character. In response to…

When the seminal article on the organization of turn-taking by Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson (1974) was published 30 years ago, I started learning English as a foreign language. In addition to being a learner of the English language for many years, I was also trained in the traditions of Conversation Analysis (CA) and linguistic anthropology…

China is a growing market for the provision of transnational programs. However, there are many challenges associated with providing good--quality learning opportunities while ensuring cost-effectiveness, particularly in bilingual programs. This paper describes the experience of business academics teaching a postgraduate MBA program in Mandarin to…