A 2004 College Board survey revealed that school districts around America wanted to offer Chinese, but finding qualified teachers was a problem, says Selena Cantor, director of Chinese Language and Culture Initiatives for the College Board. So last year, a new College Board program brought guest teachers from China to school districts in 31…

In writing assessment, there are quite a number of factors influencing the marking stability and the reliability of the assessment such as the attitude towards marking and consistency of markers, the physical environment, the design of the items, and marking rubrics. Even the methods to train markers have effects on the reliability of the…

Academic success among East Asian students is well known and almost stereotypical. Yet the attention to emotional well-being continues to be minimal. The discrepancy between academic success and social/emotional difficulties appears to be a problem among East Asian adolescents. This qualitative grounded theory study examines how the cultural…

The work described in this paper explores the feasibility of using of a wireless handheld system (WHS) that supports the individual and co-operative reading activities of students and helps teachers implement reading strategy instruction in Chinese language classes. The experimental findings demonstrate that the WHS benefits students applying…

Asserts that the term "co-verb" can be replaced by the term "preposition." Linguistic arguments indicating that preposition is a valid category in Chinese grammar are discussed, and the historical development of the co-verb is described. (RM)

This paper: (1) examines the internal word structure of Cantonese in terms of root, stem and affix; (2) discusses general problems of word analysis in Chinese with reference to Cantonese and Mandarin; (3) examines the issue of distorted translations from Mandarin into English resulting from faulty word analysis; and (4) looks briefly at the…

MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY, WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE INITIAL BASIS FOR CHINESE DIALECT CLASSIFICATION, ALONG WITH GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY HAS PROVIDED A FAIRLY REALISTIC GROUPING OF THE MANDARIN DIALECTS. IT NOW SEEMS DESIRABLE TO WORK OUT A FORMAL DEFINITION IN PRECISE LINGUISTIC TERMS OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A MANDARIN DIALECT AND TO DISCOVER WHETHER…

THE FORMAT OF LEVEL III (FOR GRADE 11) DIFFERS FROM THAT OF LEVELS I AND II IN HAVING 20 UNITS AND IN THE INCREASED EMPHASIS ON READING AND WRITING SKILLS. THE AUTHORS' GOAL WAS TO ENCOURAGE SELF-STUDY BY THE STUDENT, ESPECIALLY IN LEARNING TO READ CHINESE CHARACTERS. THE GRAMMAR DISCUSSED IN THIS TEXT INCLUDES POINTS PRESENTED IN LEVELS I AND II…

This paper provides a topical listing of readings on Asia (mostly by Asians). This compilation was undertaken by the Asia Society Textbook Evaluation Project as a service to teachers and curriculum developers looking for materials on Asia for courses in a wide range of fields. In-depth evaluations of the readings are not made. Among the fifty-six…

A guide to help teachers and students in California's Bay Area become aware of the region's rich resources on China and Chinese culture, contains a listing of resources useful to any classroom teacher interested in teaching about China. After an introduction to the Bay Area China Education Project, which produces the Guide, annotated descriptions…

Various definitions of culture are examined with respect to their possible implications concerning the study of Chinese culture through literary analysis. Observing the difficulty of direct Chinese culture study, the author suggests that Chinese majors consider literary sources as a valid means of interpreting Chinese culture. Some 11 sets of…

"It" as a personal pronoun is used in many expressions without reference to persons or things. Chinese students of English as a second language find the different uses hard to understand. The differing uses of "it" in English and Chinese and errors made by Chinese students are discussed. (SW)

Discusses main ideas of papers presented that reflect the new directions explored in the field of Chinese linguistics. Current areas of study include tonal distinctions in dialect studies, contrastive analysis of Taiwanese and standard Chinese verb phrase structures, and the application of old Chinese morphological grammar to characteristics of…

Epidemiologic survey of the mental health status of Cambodian, Vietnamese and Chinese residents of Santa Clara County reports on the following: (1) distribution of mental health problems; (2) comparison of problems with those of general population; (3) relationship of health and use of mental health services to distribution of problems; and (4)…

The separation-individuation process of individuals is mediated by cultural factors of the society to which the individuals belong. Since the Chinese culture emphasizes collectivism rather than the individualism of Western culture, it is believed that there are differences in the separation-individuation process of individuals between the two…