Mao's dictum on the nature and use of art is followed closely in the area of children's art education. (MM)

Criticizes one pattern drill found in John DeFrancis'"Beginning Chinese," (1976) and suggests possible changes. (AM)

Explains some of the problems of teaching non-Western literature in a substantially Western educational curriculum, but indicates how it might be done nevertheless. (Editor)

The traditional division of the Chinese syllable into initial, final, and tone is examined. Distributional criteria are used to justify this analysis as more applicable to the Cantonese syllable than strict segmental analysis. A detailed analysis of the Cantonese final is given and implications for cross-language analyses are discussed. (CHK)

Studies the relationship between Chinese beliefs about adversity and psychological well-being in 229 economically disadvantaged families. Results showed that adolescents with stronger endorsement for positive Chinese beliefs about adversity generally displayed better psychological well-being and school adjustment and less problem behavior.…

Examines how alphabetic readers learn to read Chinese. Explores the effect of the frequency of the characters in their curriculum on performance of a lexical decision and naming task. Finds that the beginning learners were sensitive to the structural complexity and composition of characters. Suggests that perceptual learning plays an important…

Investigated spatial memory for written words as a behavioral consequence of verbal processing differences. Across three experiments with Chinese and U.S. college students, spatial memory for real and nonsense words was greater for Chinese logographs than for alphabetic English words. This spatial memory advantage was absent for pictures and…

Provides a bibliography for teachers and student teachers that includes a range of sources on different aspects of teaching Chinese. Among the materials covered are those relating to methodology, issues in teaching, curricula, conferences, and linguistic perspectives. (GLR)

Finds significant incidental learning of word meanings in 447 American and Chinese children in third and fifth grades. Notes that, in each country, incidental word learning appeared on both easy and difficult test questions and among children of all levels of ability. Suggests that incidental acquisition of word meanings while reading is a…

Presents a postmodern discussion of the playful recreation of Chinese New Year "cards" by Chinese students using the Internet. Signifies the increasingly popular practice of incorporating festive symbols from other cultures into electronic greetings. Notes that users must often install Chinese-language software before these encoded texts…

A correspondence is shown between grammatical categories and grammatical functions in Chinese. Some syntactic properties distinguish finite verbs from nonfinite verbs, nominals from other categories, and verbs from other categories. (Contains seven references.) (LB)

Applies prototype theory to the question of how to understand the concept of polysyllabic morphemes in Chinese. Analysis reveals that, because there is considerable disagreement on whether particular examples are in fact members this category, the traditional view that membership is an either/or matter is not accurate. (39 references) (MDM)

Examines the language games found in the 18th century Chinese novel "Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan." Examination focuses on distinctly Chinese literary conventions and devices that have no equivalent in English, such as "xiehouyu" and "qiaopihua," as well as puns, character splitting, enigmatic expressions, and reification of…

Demonstrates that "already" in Singapore English expresses two aspectual properties, namely the completion or the beginning of an action. The sentence "My son goes to school already" is potentially ambiguous, meaning that my son has already gone to school or that my son now goes to school, having reached the school-going age.…

This study investigated 14 English speakers' interlanguage constructions using the Chinese perfective aspect and the sentence-final modal particle. The results show that although the surface forms of the perfective aspect "-le" and the sentence-final "le" are identical, they are learned differently, with the perfective aspect…