The Confucian educational tradition and the national examination system shape Chinese students' learning styles. A study of 1,076 students studying English as a foreign language suggests that modern Chinese students are receptive to newer methods and learning styles but that this openness declines with increased exposure to foreign teachers. (19…

This longitudinal study examined emergent use of major English grammatical morphemes by three 6-year-old Chinese-speaking children learning English as a second language. Although Chinese is morphologically different from English (has no articles, tense, or plural inflections or auxiliaries), articles are among first morphemes used correctly by the…

Describes results of a mail survey of adult students of the Open Learning Institute (OLI) of Hong Kong that was conducted to investigate student attitudes toward various features of the adult and action learning approaches, the extent of the influence of the local Chinese national culture, and reasons for studying at OLI. (LRW)

Traces the origin and development of a text-based computer-assisted language-learning activity, namely the shuffling of sentences of a text and the reconstruction on screen of that text. Emphasizes the elements of continuity between the first version, implemented on a mainframe computer, and the latest version. Classroom use of the latest version…

For Hong Kong high school students (n=12,784), late immersion in English as the language of instruction had large negative effects on science, geography, and history achievement. English immersion had small positive effects on English and Chinese achievement. Effects of language of instruction did not vary substantially over the first 3 years of…

Discussion of language barriers when using multilingual digital library collections on the Internet focuses on query translation and document translation in a Chinese-English information retrieval system called MTIR. Highlights include a bilingual dictionary; machine transliteration algorithm; design issues for document translation; HTML tags; and…

Administers three measures of phonological processing to Chinese first graders. Notes that earlier research indicates a strong relationship between children's phonological processing skills and early reading ability in alphabetic orthography. Finds that this relationship is not specific to reading an alphabetic orthography--the relationship…

Describes the author's experiences straddling a Chinese home culture and an American school culture throughout most of her life. Ponders how to, as a future teacher, support the experiences of individual students, be aware of cultural assumptions, and reward students for what they already know. (SR)

This study conducted interviews with 19 survivors of sexual abuse and three social workers in Taiwan. It found sexual stigmatization and feelings of disempowerment and betrayal as the most pervasive trauma complex among the abuse survivors. Effects of cultural attitudes toward sexual victimization of women and Chinese patriarchal familialism are…

Explores the question of the acquisition of tense and aspect and sheds new light on this question through fresh analytic categories. Examines the role of broader situation types in second language learners' development of tense-aspect morphology. (Author/VWL)

Describes an art unit in which students sculpt a signature seal out of clay and use Chinese brush painting techniques to paint a scroll. Discusses the seal and its historical use in China. Lists materials needed and explains the procedure. (CMK)

Focuses on how people from different cultures organize and sequence texts in different ways and how students write essays in a second language that follow the rhetorical patterns of their native language. The article describes the types of essays Chinese students must write for the university entrance exam in their home country. (10 references)…

Examines the Chinese immigrant community in Auckland, New Zealand and how they address the question of first language maintenance in their largely new English-speaking environment. Shows that language maintenance, especially the written language is going to be an uphill struggle. (Author/VWL)

Chinese immigrants (N=83) were surveyed to determine whether ethnic identity and general acculturation would prove indicators of quality of life. Meaningful effects and interactions were found between acculturation and Asian identity in explaining immigrants' quality of life. Discusses methodological issues in studying immigrants and implications…

Investigated correlates of acculturation among Chinese Canadian university students' beliefs and expectations about social roles pertaining to school, work, family, and personal relationships, exploring differences in attitudes as correlates of cultural and gender role traditionalism perceived for self and one's parents. Surveys revealed…