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Hume, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1992
Six working papers on phonology, primarily concerning less commonly taught languages, are presented are in this volume. Titles include: "Non-Uniqueness Condition and the Segmentation of the Chinese Syllable" (Benjamin Ao); "Theoretical Consequences of Metathesis in Maltese" (Elizabeth Hume); "Cs and Vs or Moras: The Case…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Bantu Languages, Chinese
Download full textChen, Chi-Fen; And Others – 1996
This paper explores the features of rhythm that make English difficult for speakers of Chinese and suggests some techniques for helping students speak English with an English rhythm. The focus is on information obtained during a workshop: the rhythmic differences between Chinese and English, word rhythm in English, and sentence rhythm in English.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Chinese, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Liu, Yue – 1996
An approach to teaching expository writing in English as a Second Language (ESL) to native speakers of Chinese is offered. It is based on a comparison and classification of rhetorical patterns in the two languages. Chinese rhetoric contains a wide variety of methods of presentation, including both direct and indirect, or metaphoric, forms. It is…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics
Lin, Min-Jin H. – 1997
A study investigated how different combinations of background color, text brightness and text color in Chinese CAI (computer assisted instruction) software programs may influence the affection, perception, and cognition of elementary school students in Taiwan. A sample size of 332 was drawn from the sixth-grade students of 2 elementary schools.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Color, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Sims, James M. – 1997
The Whorfian Hypothesis, which states that the structure of one's language influences the understanding of reality, is examined in relation to the Chinese language and culture and to the English language and American culture. Examples supporting the Whorfian Hypothesis are offered in language relating to personal relationships. Research on the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cultural Context, English, Foreign Countries
Carlson, Sybil B. – 1988
The reasoning skills tapped by the analytical measure of the Graduate Record Examinations were studied by examining how performance on its constituent type items relate to alternative criteria. Another objective was to ascertain the extent to which additional information on examinees' analytical skills might be obtained from further analyses of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
Prideaux, Gary D.; Hogan, John T. – 1994
An analysis of oral and written discourse focuses on the hypothesis that marked structures serve to code discourse boundaries and signal the advent of new discourse units. The hypothesis is examined against three independent sets of data: (1) discourse from a larger study, in which subjects provided oral or written narrative descriptions, in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English, Fiction
Wang, Xiaoping – 1992
This paper presents results of a LISREL factor analysis on data from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Chinese Revised (WISC-CR) (published in 1986) for children ages 6.5 to 16.5 years, using a standardization sample of 200 children (100 males and 100 females) at each of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Chinese
Cai, Guanjun – 1993
A discussion of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing instruction focuses on cultural factors that influence Chinese students' composition and that may be misconstrued as poor writing techniques. It is argued that the different rhetorical conventions that ESL students incorporate into their English writing are based in the deeper and broader…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences
Huntsinger, Carol S.; Krieg, Dana Balsink; Jose, Paul E. – 1998
A longitudinal study involving well-educated first-generation Chinese American and European American parents and their children explored the parents' involvement in their children' schooling in the primary school years. This paper is based on data collected at Time 3 (1997). At Time 1 (1993), 40 Chinese American and 40 European American preschool…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Cultural Differences, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove; Phillipson, Robert – 1983
A framework is presented for analyzing the role of communicative and intercultural competence and their teachability in second language instruction. First, several problematic communication situations are examined in which: (1) a native English speaker and native Danish speaker with limited English converse; (2) native speakers of two languages…
Descriptors: Chinese, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Danish
Leung, Jupian J. – 1991
A study examined the effects of students' ethnicity on measures of the meaning of success in school and a preference for school feedback. A questionnaire was distributed to 333 white American students in eastern Wisconsin and 375 Hong Kong Chinese 8th- through 12-graders. Results showed a significantly higher proportion of American than Chinese…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chinese Culture, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Newman, Jeanne J. – 1989
A study investigated the use of the interlanguage of a native speaker of Chinese using English. The subject was an art school instructor, and data were drawn from three recordings of language used in his role as teacher. It was found that despite different situations, the nature of the task determined the kind of language-learner language used.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Chinese, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
Endo, Russell – 1982
Cultural and institutional influences on Chinese Americans' use of legal services are examined. General background information was gathered on clients who used the local office of a federally sponsored legal services program (LOLSP) in a major western city during 1978. Data were also collected through intensive interviews with LOLSP Chinese…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Chinese Americans, Comparative Analysis, Conflict Resolution
Offenberg, Robert M.; And Others – 1978
The first year of an individualized bilingual magnet project was evaluated. A total of 254 elementary and secondary students in Philadelphia participated. Multimedia bilingual education was provided to students of non-English speaking backgrounds at two sites. At the elementary site, bilingual education was offered in Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
