Reports on a factor analysis of homogeneously grouped behavior problems for two large samples of Chinese adolescents during their junior high school years. Cross-culturally compares this factor organization with those found for non-Oriental children and adolescents. (MK)

The author briefly describes selected instructional media--excluding films--on the geography, history, art, culture, and everyday life of China. Grade levels and ordering sources are provided. This is one of several articles on China studies appearing in this issue. (SJL)

Describes two manual aids used in educating deaf children in Peking: the Chinese finger alphabet for teaching Chinese characters, and a new device being experimented with called the Chinese finger syllabary. Sample illustrations are given for both, as well as for the Pinyin finger alphabet. (PJM)

Outlines the current language situation in Singapore in relation to demographic and political changes. Reasons are given for the preeminence of English and the push for Mandarin Chinese as the official language. The role of Premier Lee Kwan Yew and the media in propounding the Republic language policy is discussed. (Author/PJM)

Examines the rendering of personal, commercial, and geographic foreign names in Chinese, in order to make some observations about Chinese script. (AM)

Rapid and frequent changes in response to political and economic priorities characterize Chinese education. (MM)

Education in the People's Republic cf China and in the United States is compared. (MM)

Noting that the naming of Chinese characters involves lexical access not present in alphabetic orthographies, this study sought to locate the frequency effects in lexical decisions and naming of Chinese characters. Results indicated that a clear frequency/regularity interaction exists in regular and lexical naming, but this interaction is…

Reports on a structured exchange program between Chinese and Australian students that focuses on discussion and reflections on everyday cultural practices and behaviors, the most relevant but least accessible aspect of culture for international students. (Author/VWL)

Discussion of multilingual corpora and cross-lingual information retrieval focuses on research that constructed English/Chinese parallel corpus automatically from the World Wide Web. Presents an alignment method which is based on dynamic programming to identify one-to-one Chinese and English title pairs and discusses results of experiments…

Examines the notion inherent in the Interactive Constituency Model of Perfetti and colleagues that in reading 2-character Chinese words phonology is activated at the character level rather than at the word level. Notes that the two lexical decision experiments and the naming experiment uphold the generality of character-level consistency effect of…

Considers how reading has universal properties that can be seen across the world's writing systems. Discusses the most important universal language constraint: All writing systems represent spoken languages, a universal with consequences for reading processes. Draws on observations and research from Chinese and Korean to examine these universal…

Examined the understanding of general correspondences between print and language and specific correspondences in alphabetic and nonalphabetic languages on the part of monolingual (English) and bilingual (French-English, Chinese-English) 4- and 5-year-olds. Bilingual children understood the general symbolic representation of print better than…

Using conversation analysis, examines one sequence of interaction during the closing stage of a business negotiation in English among four speakers--three native Mandarin speakers who speak fluent English and one native British English speaker. Attempts to reveal how their cultural beliefs and values inform their conversational styles. Notion of…

Indicates that individuals increase the size of their reading units as they perfect their knowledge of either Chinese or English; a Chinese word may be processed by character components or by larger units depending on the frequency of the word; and familiarity with the Chinese writing system does not help individuals increase the size of their…