This study examined the reliability and validity of the scores of a Chinese-translated version of the Gifted Rating Scales-School Form (GRS-S) using parents as raters and explored the effects of gender and grade on the ratings. A total of 222 parents participated in the study and rated their child independently using the Chinese version of the…

With the increasing importance of the People's Republic of China in the world, more and more people are learning to speak Mandarin. This article reports the views of some teachers and learners in the UK today, considers some of the difficulties which they face, and gives some suggestions for progress.

In this article, I analyse the initiation/response/follow-up (IRF) exchanges between teachers and students in teacher-fronted instruction by using transcribed classroom data. Adopting a social constructivist position, I examine ways in which teachers construct or reduce students' learning opportunities in these communications. Furthermore, I…

This study investigated talker-dependent and talker-independent perceptual adaptation to foreign-accent English. Experiment 1 investigated talker-dependent adaptation by comparing native English listeners' recognition accuracy for Chinese-accented English across single and multiple talker presentation conditions. Results showed that the native…

In the past decade, the use of computer technology for language instruction has expanded rapidly. In Taiwan, overseas students whose native languages are not Chinese mostly get trouble in learning and communicating particularly during the first year of their study. To overcome their language barrier in National Chi Nan University (NCNU), a…

This selected, annotated bibliography reflects the emphasis of sinologists on the early period (roughly 600 B.C. to 300 A.D.) of Chinese rhetoric. The 42 items listed in the annotated bibliography are divided into overviews of early Chinese intellectual history, secondary sources on rhetoric, and translations of primary sources. The books and…

In the last 5 or 6 years, there has been an outburst of scholarly work published about traditional and contemporary Chinese rhetoric. Some of these pieces have appeared in communication journals and some in English and composition journals, and disciplinary boundaries may have prevented getting a good idea of exactly what, and how much research,…

The study reported in this paper examined the structure and function of Chinese opera (also known as Peking opera) as an effective communication medium of social control and change in China, a land populated by 800 million people and nourished by a 5,000-year-old civilization. The study followed structural-functional analysis, content analysis,…

This study examines the rise and development of the new genre of Chinese poetry, from 1919 to the present, focusing on the period's major poets and several lesser poets. Style, themes, characteristic techniques, faults and virtues, major concerns, and important contributions of each poet are discussed. Part 1, which covers the period before 1917,…

Studies the relationship between Chinese culture and the use of homonyms and their avoidance in Chinese. (Author/AM)

Details are given concerning the background, operation, and curriculum of a Chinese elementary school for both foreign and Chinese students. Foreign and Chinese attitudes toward the school and contacts between foreigners and Chinese also are discussed. (DT)

Fundamental functional differences between preverbal and postverbal locatives in Mandarin Chinese are explored. The syntactic behaviors of the verbs are discussed in the context of compatibilities with locatives containing the element "zai." (Author/SW)

Transcript of testimony given on April 17, 1970 before the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. (RJ)

The 168 titles selected in this bibliography are about the conditions of Orientals in the United States today and yesterday, the cultural and historical background which dominates their way of thinking and living, and their American acculturation. (Author)