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A Test of the Teaching-Learning Style Mesh Hypothesis in a Chinese MBA
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Andres, Hayward P.; Akan, Obasi H. – Journal of International Education in Business, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine if "fit" and "non-fit" between authoritarian versus demonstrator teaching and visual versus verbal learning preferences differ in impact on Chinese MBA student academic performance in a large local urban Chinese university setting. In addition, the role of Chinese cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Graduate Students, Masters Degrees
Early Language Learning: Complexity and Mixed Methods
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Enever, Janet, Ed.; Lindgren, Eva, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
This is the first collection of research studies to explore the potential for mixed methods to shed light on foreign or second language learning by young learners in instructed contexts. It brings together recent studies undertaken in Cameroon, China, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
Effects of Pinyin and Script Type on Verbal Processing: Comparisons of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong Experience.
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Chen, Mary Jane; Yuen, Joseph Chak-Kau – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
Results of a study of children's performance on pseudohomophone naming, similarity judgment, and lexical decision suggest that training in pinyin, a system for spelling Chinese words in Latin letters, helps child readers pronounce unfamiliar words, and makes them more responsive to visual information but less precise in word recognition.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Non Roman Scripts, Phonemic Alphabets