ERIC Number: EJ1403489
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-1925-4741
EISSN: EISSN-1925-475X
The Students' Development of Discourse Competence in the Elementary Chinese Courses for International Learners
Song, Gang; Fan, Li
Higher Education Studies, v13 n3 p153-161 2023
Based on the theoretical approaches to interlanguage and discourse cohesiveness, this study examines international students' growth in discourse awareness and discourse competence in the teaching of elementary Chinese reading and writing, and explores a set of assessment methods for teaching discourse. The learners' knowledge and production of Chinese conjunctive words were assessed with multiple test methods, including the sentence sequencing test for testing learners' cognitive understanding of discourse cohesiveness, the elicitation tasks for assessing learners' production of conjunctive words, the tests of picture-based sentence writing and essay writing for evaluating learners' discourse awareness of the cohesiveness in form and meaning. 13 students were recruited by us to participate in these tests. A comprehensive discussion of the data supports that appropriate reading and writing instruction can develop learners' discourse competence and enhance their discourse awareness to a certain extent.
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Literacy Education, Foreign Students, Metalinguistics, Introductory Courses, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Connected Discourse, Pictorial Stimuli, Essays, Task Analysis, Writing Tests, Writing Instruction, Psycholinguistics, Undergraduate Students, Language Tests, Foreign Countries
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