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Huei-Mei Liu; Feng-Ming Tsao; Chun-Yi Lin; Gwyneth Rost; Ling-Yu Guo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The current investigation evaluated the extent to which early noun, verb, and adjective lexicon sizes predicted later grammatical outcomes in Mandarin-speaking children with and without late language emergence (LLE) using a parent report. Method: In Study 1, the parents of 24 Mandarin-speaking children with typical language filled out the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development
Reynolds, Barry Lee; Teng, Mark Feng – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
The study examined the types of written corrective feedback given by second language writing teachers on Taiwanese secondary school students' collocation errors. First, the written corrective feedback that teachers provided on learners' word choice errors was examined to uncover the types of feedback provided. Then, analysis focused on verb-noun…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Secondary School Students, Writing Teachers
Tsai, Mei-Hsing – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study investigates the relative effectiveness of two methods for teaching a set of English verb-noun collocations: form-focused instruction (FFI) and concept-based instruction (CBI). The sample comprised 73 Chinese-speaking learners of English taking intermediate English courses, who were randomly assigned to one of three groups: an FFI…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pretests Posttests
Chung, Siaw-Fong – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2018
This paper explored a less-studied preposition, "after," and its uses in a corpus. The analysis included an inspection of dictionary senses, followed by the distributional patterns of parts-of-speech, the co-appearing verbs of "after," the contextual uses of [-"ly after"] and [-"ly after"+NOUN], and finally…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Usage, Workshops, English (Second Language)
Sah, Wen-hui – First Language, 2018
This study investigates the referential choice of Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The data consist of narratives from 16 children with ASD and 16 typically-developing (TD) children. The narratives were elicited using the wordless picture book "Frog, where are you?" Participants' referential expressions…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Classification, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Yang, Pi-Lan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The present study aimed to investigate (a) the extent to which Chinese-speaking learners of English in Taiwan use referential noun phrase (NP) information contained in discourse contexts to complete ambiguous noun/verb fragments in a sentence completion task, and (b) whether and when they use the contexts to disambiguate main verb versus reduced…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Reynolds, Barry Lee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
Lack of knowledge in the conventional usage of collocations in one's respective field of expertise cause Taiwanese students to produce academic writing that is markedly different than more competent writing. This is because Taiwanese students are first and foremost English as a Foreign language (EFL) readers and may have difficulties picking up on…
Descriptors: Action Research, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Chinese