Provides cultural information that may be useful for researchers and American English teachers of Chinese-born students. Reviews pedagogical approaches used by native Chinese-speaking teachers of English in an educational environment grounded in Confucian precepts for teaching and learning and suggests that many of the difficulties Chinese…

Explores the literary themes present in the stories in the "Texts for Nine-Year Compulsory Education: Chinese," grade 1-3. Notes that these textbooks are currently used in Shanghai public elementary schools in the People's Republic of China (PRC) for instruction in the Mandarin dialect of the Chinese language. Concludes that the themes…

Indicates Chinese students have a high level of consensus in regarding overt unwelcome physical contact and coercive sexuality as sexual harassment. A small percentage of respondents classified sexist and misogynistic behaviors, pressure for dates, and unsolicited disclosure of personal and emotional feelings as sexually harassing. Women had…

Discusses the ways that high school English-as-a-Second-Language teachers might ask students to translate into English their own original poetry written in their original languages. Questions the "English Only" rule often proscribed for such classes. Describes how one teacher succeeded in having students translate their own poems. (HB)

Introduces three Chinese-American writers who live in Hawaii: Wing Tek Lum, Darrell H. Y. Lum, and Eric Chock. Discussion and excerpts illustrate island influence on central Chinese-American themes--kinship relations, the struggle against racism, and the legacy of traditional Chinese culture in both its positive and oppressive aspects. (DM)

Examines differences in willingness to conform to parents' expectations of academic achievement as perceived by American, Chinese-American, and Chinese high school students. Chinese students were more willing to accept their parents' advice and cared more about fulfilling academic expectations than did American students. Chinese-American students…

This syllabus for teachers of the fourth year of a course in Mandarin Chinese is based on the texts "Intermediate Chinese" and "Beginning Chinese Reader" by John DeFrancis. The objectives and scope of the third year focus on increasing translation skills; developing an understanding of Communist China; and expanding recognition of Chinese…

This syllabus for teachers of the third year of a course in Mandarin Chinese is based on the texts "Beginning Chinese" and "Beginning Chinese Reader" by John DeFrancis. The objectives and scope of the third year focus on increasing listening comprehension, improving conversational ability, composition skills, and extensive character recognition.…

This syllabus for teachers of the first year of a course in Mandarin Chinese is based on the texts "Beginning Chinese" and "Beginning Chinese Reader" by John DeFrancis. The objectives and scope of the audiolingual course cover aspects of Chinese phonology, basic sentence patterns, 200 characters, syntax, reading, writing, listening comprehension,…

This syllabus for teachers of the second year of a course in Mandarin Chinese is based on the texts "Beginning Chinese" and "Beginning Chinese Reader" by John DeFrancis. The objectives and scope of the audiolingual course cover Chinese grammar, additional Chinese characters, syntax, and phonology. Emphasis is placed on development of reading and…

This paper illustrates the Clinical Model of Parents' Awareness (CMPA) for effectiveness of teaching Chinese Americans based on a previous research finding, the Patterns of Chinese Americans' Learning Chinese Learning Environment (PCACLE). The clinical model includes eight components: (1) prepare a teacher-parent conferences; (2) present 5…

A fundamental question in the study of second language (L2) fluency is the extent to which temporal characteristics of speakers' first language (L1) productions predict the same characteristics in the L2. A close relationship between a speaker's L1 and L2 temporal characteristics would suggest that fluency is governed by an underlying trait. This…

In this article, the author describes her experience of teaching Mandarin Chinese at Stopher Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky. Through growing and learning with her students, the author has become a firm believer in the importance of early childhood language acquisition and a passionate advocate for world language education.

For various reasons, second language learners modify their speech by means of self-repair. This study, based on a small-scale corpus, shows the patterns and features of self-repairs by intermediate Chinese learners of English. The results suggest that intermediate Chinese learners of English more frequently make repairs than advanced Chinese…

Learners who begin to acquire a second language (L2) in a naturalistic environment after puberty are thought to be constrained by biological age factors and to have greater difficulty obtaining native-like L2. However, the extant literature suggests that L2 acquisition may be positively affected by post-maturational factors, such as acculturation.…