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EFL Learners' Corrective Feedback Decision-Making in Task-Based Peer Interaction
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Xu, Jinfen; Fan, Yumei; Xu, Qingting – Language Awareness, 2019
This laboratory-based research investigated how 40 university EFL learners responded to their peers' linguistic errors and made their moment-to-moment decisions of whether or not to provide corrective feedback (CF) to their peers' errors in task-based peer interaction. Data from the transcripts of videotaped pair interaction and audio-taped…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
Does a Rater's Familiarity with a Candidate's Pronunciation Affect the Rating in Oral Proficiency Interviews?
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Carey, Michael D.; Mannell, Robert H.; Dunn, Peter K. – Language Testing, 2011
This study investigated factors that could affect inter-examiner reliability in the pronunciation assessment component of speaking tests. We hypothesized that the rating of pronunciation is susceptible to variation in assessment due to the amount of exposure examiners have to nonnative English accents. An inter-rater variability analysis was…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Pronunciation, Phonology, Interlanguage
Data Analysis of Chinese Characters in Primary School Corpora of Hong Kong and Mainland China: Preliminary Theoretical Interpretations
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Chung, Flora Hoi-Ki; Leung, Man-Tak – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
Metalinguistic awareness (an awareness about the structure of orthography) had been considered vital for reading acquisition. The awareness of phonological regularity and consistency had been found in advanced readers in recent research. Evidence based on simplified Chinese suggested the effect of semantic transparency on reading in school…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Phonetics, Metalinguistics, Semantics
Phonemic Awareness in Chinese L1 Readers of English: Not Simply an Effect of Orthography
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McDowell, Heather J.; Lorch, Marjorie Perlman – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
The current study investigates the phonemic awareness and nonword processing of English as a foreign language students from Hong Kong and Mainland China, with reference to factors considered the main facilitators of phonemic awareness: written language experience, spoken language experience, and metalinguistic training. The Mainland Chinese…
Descriptors: Phonology, Metalinguistics, Written Language, Oral Language
Reading Strategies Revealed in Chinese Children's Oral Reading
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Wu, Xiaoying; Anderson, Richard C. – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the character identification strategies of Chinese children during their oral reading of a continuous text. Eighteen second graders' oral reading of a story, as well as an interview about their decoding strategies, were audiotaped and transcribed. The results generally converged with those of previous oral…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Oral Reading, Metalinguistics, Written Language
Chinese Children's Reading Acquisition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues.
Li, Wenling, Ed.; Gaffney, Janet S., Ed.; Packard, Jerome L., Ed. – 2002
This book provides comprehensive resources for the critical discussion of major issues in learning to read Chinese from a child acquisition perspective. It is divided into 4 parts and 11 chapters. Part 1, "Theoretical Perspectives on Learning to Read" includes "Current Issues in Learning To Read Chinese" (Ovid J.L. Tzeng),…
Descriptors: Chinese, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition