This paper proposes that theoretical studies of the Chinese resultative construction can make it easier to teach and learn. Several varied linguistic approaches are necessary to the language teacher. Pedagogical analyses of data are valued when based on different relevant theoretical points, elucidating meaning, function, purpose and form of data.…

This article examines and evaluates studies in the field of Sino-Korean linguistics appearing primarily since 1955. Discussions focus on how studies were developed, the current state, and what problems exise. A bibliography is included. (CHK)

Studied relationships among academic self-concept, academic achievement, and language of instruction (Chinese or English) for 7,802 high school students in Hong Kong. Prior self-concept had significant effects on subsequent achievement beyond the effects of prior achievement, and prior achievement had effects on subsequent self-concept as well.…

Discusses what Chinese children have read in the last quarter of the 20th century. Notes that much of Chinese children's literature contains strong political, moral, and ideological messages. Examines the official guidelines for children's literature in the post-Mao era. Concludes that in the post-Mao period, the state has become more flexible,…

Presents an interview of Sandra Thompson on various topics relating to the Chinese language. The interview touches on conversational data on Chinese, the lack of morphological complexity in Mandarin Chinese, and the development of Chinese functionalism. (12 references) (CK)

An interview study was carried out with 43 Hong Kong high school students to explore the dimensionality of learning and to study the relationship between memorization and understanding as experienced by Chinese learners. Describes different ways of experiencing learning among these students in a two-dimensional outcome space. (SLD)

Discusses the growth in the availability of information on the Web in languages other than English and focuses on cross-lingual semantic interoperability. Describes the development of an automatic English/Chinese thesaurus and reports results of an experiment with legal information from the Hong Kong government, including precision and recall.…

Discusses the unaccusative trap hypothesis, which provides a developmental account for a variety of seemingly unrelated syntactic phenomena in second language English, Japanese, and Chinese. (Author/VWL)

Examines the relationship between self-perceptions of parenting behavior and mothers' perceived acculturation levels for themselves and their children in 95 Chinese immigrant mothers. Data showed that mothers perceived their children as more acculturated than themselves, a larger perceived acculturation gap was associated with more parenting…

Reports an approach to automatic thesaurus construction for Chinese documents. Presents an effective Chinese keyword extraction algorithm. Compared to previous studies, this method speeds up the thesaurus generation process drastically. It also achieves a similar percentage level of term relatedness. Includes three tables and four figures.…

The grammaticalization of "liao" as a main verb in tenth-century vernacular texts to "le" as an aspectual particle in modern Chinese is investigated. The change is attributed to the resultative construction coming into existence in the language and to instances where the verb took sentential subjects or occurred in temporal clauses only. (17…

Discusses the distinctive differences between the English and Chinese languages from the system designer's point of view and explores the potential problems for Chinese information retrieval systems, focusing on character entry and retrieval. The advantages and disadvantages of current approaches are discussed, and a regular expression search…

Investigates the psychological representation of visual-gestural languages from a cross-linguistic perspective. The perception of signers of American and Chinese Sign Languages is analyzed. (27 references) (Author/VWL)

Describes the differences between English and Chinese information retrieval and the problems with Chinese character entry and encoding. It is argued that regular expression searching facilitates Chinese character entry and retrieval. Mathematical models are developed for controlling noisy characters retrieved by regular expressions containing…

Describes the process required to learn to write Chinese ideographs, and investigates the possibilities for developing a computer-aided language learning tutor. Character stroke sequences are described; a modified keyboard for Chinese character entry is discussed; and interaction between the student and the tutor is examined. (11 references) (LRW)