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Yi Zhang; Wei Ren – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Although a growing body of literature has explored multilingual users' digital practice, dialects adoptions have received relatively little attention. As an important part of the Chinese language, spoken dialects, or '[Chinese characters omitted]' (fangyan), are highly complex in their classification and colloquial usage. Nevertheless, Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Dialects, Written Language
Lulu Cheng; Shaoxin Wang; Yule Peng – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Children's language development can reflect the developmental process of children's cognition and social emotions. The present study focuses on preschool children's conversational competence and narrative competence, aiming at exploring developmental features of preschool children's pragmatic competence through analyzing data from self-built oral…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Development, Child Language, Pragmatics
Ge Wang; Stephen A. Bahry; Weiwu An – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The language vitality of non-dominant communities has gained increasing attention worldwide with international declarations and national legislation enacted to protect the right of non-dominant language use and development. As information and communication technology (ICT) has spread, extending ICT to ethnic or indigenous languages has lagged.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Language Minorities, COVID-19
Zhangwei Chen – SAGE Open, 2024
Motivation and anxiety are two crucial factors influencing learning outcomes, yet limited empirical research on expectancy-value theory can be found within previous literature about Chinese undergraduate students studying English as a foreign language (EFL). Moreover, few studies have examined the interaction between motivation and skill-specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Jiayi Wang; Nicola Halenko – Language Learning, 2024
This longitudinal study examines the effects of a pre-study abroad (SA) pedagogic intervention and subsequent SA experience on second language (L2) Mandarin fluency. It explores two temporal aspects of oral fluency--planning time and speech rate--along with one performance measure, duration of response. Additionally, L2 contact data were included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning
Chenyi Zhang; Xiao Zhang; Gary E. Bingham; Liying Zhang – Early Education and Development, 2025
This study describes the early writing environments of 16 preschool classrooms in China and 155 Chinese preschoolers' early writing skills as assessed through name writing, word dictation, and early composing tasks. The classroom early writing environment consists of children's accessibility to writing materials, and teachers' writing instruction.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Preschools, Preschool Children
Xia Yun – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
As the main way of inheriting traditional Chinese art, oral and heart-to-heart teaching (OAHTHT) has survived in all kinds of art inheritance activities. However, the existing literature fails to provide a clear explanation of the applicability and evolution of OAHTHT in contemporary school music classrooms. This article reports on a project of…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Asian Culture
Xiaoqin Shi; Nini Qu; Xiaoyuan Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Spoken English Competency (SEC) remains a critical weakness in English Proficiency (EP) of Chinese college students, particularly when compared with their English competency in writing and reading. Despite years of English learning since elementary school, Chinese college students often struggle to master SEC. Although previous studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Needs, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Wan, Yao; Dechsubha, Thawascha – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The world is familiar with Chinese wine but neglects its attractive partner, Thumb Fight ([foreign characters omitted]). The Thumb Fight is a precious traditional Chinese drinking game. However, its rare research still focuses on its history, not the translation process during its dynamic playing logic. The semiotic is access to logic from…
Descriptors: Chinese, Semiotics, Translation, Language Processing
Xiaoqin Shi; Xiaoqing Wang; Wei Zhang – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Automatic Speech Scoring (ASS) has increasingly become a useful tool in oral proficiency testing for Second Language (L2) learners. However, limited studies investigate the alignment of ASS indices with the Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF)--the three dimensions in evaluating L2 speakers' oral proficiency, and the subsequent impact indices…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Scoring
Ke Li; Mark Peterson; Qiao Wang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study applies Activity Theory to describe and analyze an out-of-school project in which eight Chinese university students utilized a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) to learn English. Based on data collected through questionnaires, gaming journals, gaming recordings and interviews, thematic analysis was performed to identify the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Second Language Learning, Video Games, College Students
Wang, Danyang; Zheng, Li; Lin, Yuanyuan; Zhang, Yiwen; Sheng, Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Sentence repetition (SR) is believed to be a clinical marker for developmental language disorder (DLD) across many languages. This study explored the potential of a self-designed Mandarin SR task (MSRT) to reflect Mandarin-speaking preschoolers' language ability and to differentiate children with and without DLD in this population.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Repetition, Mandarin Chinese, Preschool Children
Heron, Marion; Baker, Sally; Gravett, Karen; Irwin, Evonne – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Although the importance of developing students' academic literacies has been well-established, academic oracy has been forgotten. There is a paucity of attention to oracy in higher education, despite the key role played by students' oral communication in academic achievement and graduate employability. This study offers a scoping review of the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Communication Skills, Literacy, Higher Education
Chan, Stephanie W. Y.; Rao, Nirmala – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Positive associations have been found between executive function (EF) and language skills in young children. However, the relations between specific components of EF and language are unclear. This study examined these relations among young children in three Asian countries. A series of EF and language tasks was administered to 700 children (350…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy, Indo European Languages
Xiaomei Ping; Jingying Wang – SAGE Open, 2023
This study aims to analyze the representation of global competence in English textbooks for higher vocational education in China. A two-dimensional textbook theoretical framework based on global competence was developed, including four indicators of global competence (vertical) and 3 dimensions of textbook content (horizontal). Through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, English (Second Language)