Documents the paucity of research on Chinese American teachers, noting how this contributes to the invisibility of Asian Americans as frontline participants in education and exploring bilingual Chinese American teachers' perceptions of the multicultural course requirement in teacher preparation. Data from teacher interviews, surveys, focus groups,…

Describes the development of the national integrated online information network in the Republic of China. Highlights include a history of library and information automation in Taiwan, the coordination efforts of the central government, creation of the Chinese MARC format, and automation under the leadership of the National Central Library.…

Examined Korean and Chinese college-level ESL learners for relative reliance on phonological and orthographic processing in English word identification. Found that Korean, but not Chinese, students made more false positive errors in judging stimuli that were homophones to category exemplars than in judging spelling controls. Chinese students made…

Discusses the use of Jiejing, a computer program that offers the learner several features that enhance both recognition and production skills in the learning of Chinese and Japanese in Australia. Students learn to produce common expressions and to discriminate the distinctive features of the new sound systems. (GLR)

Studies the tendency to stereotype physical attractiveness and identification in a collectivist culture using a group of 53 Chinese Canadian college students. Finds that introverts tended to be more prone to stereotyping than extroverts. Subjects with the highest cultural involvement were least prone to stereotyping with regard to social…

The insularity and preoccupation with Western culture and ideas in the United States presents difficulties for the effective teaching of Eastern languages and culture. Interdisciplinary cooperation at all educational levels is needed to encourage the learning and teaching of less commonly taught Eastern languages. (CB)

Documents women's historically low place in Chinese culture as an integral part of a complex economic pattern. Covers the following topics: (1) women, family, and economy; (2) the Chinese modes of production; (3) views of commodity production in China; (4) class relations; (5) women's labor; and (6) textiles, women, and class. (JS)

Suggests that interlanguage morphology research contradictions have occurred as a result of a descriptively inadequate variation model. This assertion provides the basis for proposing and applying a multivariate model (acquisition stage, linguistic environment, and communicative redundancy) to an analysis of native Mandarin Chinese speakers'…

Understanding the cultural variables affecting Chinese Americans is necessary in the rehabilitation counseling process. Counseling considerations include client variables (acculturation, difficulty dealing with ambiguity, difficulty expressing emotions, and language barriers); counselor variables (therapist bias and training bias); and other…

Discusses the major language shift in Singapore from the familial use of varieties of Chinese other than Mandarin towards the languages of education, English and Mandarin. An ethnographic study is presented of a Singaporean Chinese family that has moved from Cantonese to English, and the underlying pressures leading to this shift are examined. (19…

A longitudinal study examined the acquisition of English articles by three six-year-old children whose native tongue is Chinese, a language without articles. Findings suggest that referential place-holding and referential substitution may not be a Chinese-specific second-language learning phenomenon, rather part of a universal referential strategy…

Examined the relationship between phonological awareness and reading skills in eight-year olds from Britain, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Found that performance of Chinese children on phonological tests was not significantly related to their reading ability, in contrast to performance of English children, whose results continued to show a significant…

Discusses the use of Chinese-language television commercials from Taiwan in intermediate courses on Chinese as a foreign language. Television commercials have been found to be stimulating aural, visual, and cultural input that can provide intermediate learners with interesting, even provocative, topics to discuss. (11 references) (MDM)

Basic thinking regarding certain aspects of learner autonomy is presented as well as certain cultural traits that may impede the promotion of autonomy. The use of large-scale simulation can create a learning environment that promotes autonomy. It is concluded that concrete acts of taking responsibility imbue the learner with a sense of autonomy.…

Using Scotton's model of codeswitching based on markedness theory, this paper examines a type of register variation known as "babytalk," defined as ambiguous talk of babies or young children and talk to babies or young children. It is argued that babytalk and the voice of authority are motivated by Chinese cultural assumptions about…