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Shen, Yingying – English Language Teaching, 2009
Borrowed words are the products of language development and cultural contact. This paper probes into the brief study of borrowed words in both English and Chinese vocabulary. At the very beginning it generally introduces issues being covered, and the following two parts center on the study of borrowed words on the basis of dictionary research.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Linguistic Borrowing, Chinese, English
Shu, Hua; Anderson, Richard C. – 1995
A total of 292 Chinese children in the first, third, or fifth grade in Beijing, China, participated in one of two experiments investigating radical awareness; that is, the knowledge that a component of most Chinese characters, called the radical, usually provides information about a character's meaning. The technique was to present two-character…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Chinese, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries