Abstract This study examined the cross-linguistic relationship in morphological awareness in two ... more Abstract This study examined the cross-linguistic relationship in morphological awareness in two typologically diverse languages, Chinese and English and their relative contributions to L2 reading comprehension among Grades 5 and 6 students in China. Morphological ...
The three groups identified in this project are found to have developed different Mandarin oral p... more The three groups identified in this project are found to have developed different Mandarin oral proficiencies in relation to their different exposures of language use at home in terms of their vocabulary coverage and code-switching. The CSF group has a much bigger ...
This report provides preliminary findings of research work in progress, drawing on the initial se... more This report provides preliminary findings of research work in progress, drawing on the initial set of Chinese classroom data from the Core Project by the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP). It describes Chinese Language pedagogic practice ...
This study examined young Heritage Language (HL) learners' home literacy environ... more This study examined young Heritage Language (HL) learners' home literacy environment and its impact on HL word-knowledge development, focusing on a group of ChineseEnglish bilingual children learning to read in Chinese as a Heritage Language in the United States. A ...
This study examined socio-psychological factors and language maintenance and shift among an Ameri... more This study examined socio-psychological factors and language maintenance and shift among an American Chinese community.Results showed there was significant difference between first-and second-generation Chinese in their perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of ...
Abstract In this paper, we describe Chinese language instruction in Singapore primary school clas... more Abstract In this paper, we describe Chinese language instruction in Singapore primary school classrooms and discuss its relationship with the government policy of language in education. We use a classroom coding approach to examine whether there are ...
Journal of Chinese Language and Computing, Jan 1, 2008
That the Chinese IT industry has been recurrently plagued by the deficiencies of the Chinese writ... more That the Chinese IT industry has been recurrently plagued by the deficiencies of the Chinese writing system has been well known. In this paper, we provided an examination of the complex factors involved in the process of streamlining the total number (TN) of Chinese ...
Adopting the sociocultural framework and the corpus linguistic approach,this study investigated t... more Adopting the sociocultural framework and the corpus linguistic approach,this study investigated the structural characteristics of teacher questioning discourse and teacher-student interaction in Singapore's primary school classrooms.It was found that interaction between teacher ...
[ABSTRACT] Drawn up the Sociocultural Theory and using classroom data from CRPP's Co... more [ABSTRACT] Drawn up the Sociocultural Theory and using classroom data from CRPP's Core Project, this study examines teacher questioning discourse and its effects on student learning in Primary 5 Chinese Language classrooms in Singapore. Integrating quantitative and ...
Abstract In this paper we intend to provide a review of pinyin input experiment studies in Chines... more Abstract In this paper we intend to provide a review of pinyin input experiment studies in Chinese literacy instruction in China and to inform the current reform of Chinese education in Singapore. We first provide a brief account of some major pinyin-based methods for ...
Abstract This study examined the cross-linguistic relationship in morphological awareness in two ... more Abstract This study examined the cross-linguistic relationship in morphological awareness in two typologically diverse languages, Chinese and English and their relative contributions to L2 reading comprehension among Grades 5 and 6 students in China. Morphological ...
The three groups identified in this project are found to have developed different Mandarin oral p... more The three groups identified in this project are found to have developed different Mandarin oral proficiencies in relation to their different exposures of language use at home in terms of their vocabulary coverage and code-switching. The CSF group has a much bigger ...
This report provides preliminary findings of research work in progress, drawing on the initial se... more This report provides preliminary findings of research work in progress, drawing on the initial set of Chinese classroom data from the Core Project by the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP). It describes Chinese Language pedagogic practice ...
This study examined young Heritage Language (HL) learners' home literacy environ... more This study examined young Heritage Language (HL) learners' home literacy environment and its impact on HL word-knowledge development, focusing on a group of ChineseEnglish bilingual children learning to read in Chinese as a Heritage Language in the United States. A ...
This study examined socio-psychological factors and language maintenance and shift among an Ameri... more This study examined socio-psychological factors and language maintenance and shift among an American Chinese community.Results showed there was significant difference between first-and second-generation Chinese in their perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of ...
Abstract In this paper, we describe Chinese language instruction in Singapore primary school clas... more Abstract In this paper, we describe Chinese language instruction in Singapore primary school classrooms and discuss its relationship with the government policy of language in education. We use a classroom coding approach to examine whether there are ...
Journal of Chinese Language and Computing, Jan 1, 2008
That the Chinese IT industry has been recurrently plagued by the deficiencies of the Chinese writ... more That the Chinese IT industry has been recurrently plagued by the deficiencies of the Chinese writing system has been well known. In this paper, we provided an examination of the complex factors involved in the process of streamlining the total number (TN) of Chinese ...
Adopting the sociocultural framework and the corpus linguistic approach,this study investigated t... more Adopting the sociocultural framework and the corpus linguistic approach,this study investigated the structural characteristics of teacher questioning discourse and teacher-student interaction in Singapore's primary school classrooms.It was found that interaction between teacher ...
[ABSTRACT] Drawn up the Sociocultural Theory and using classroom data from CRPP's Co... more [ABSTRACT] Drawn up the Sociocultural Theory and using classroom data from CRPP's Core Project, this study examines teacher questioning discourse and its effects on student learning in Primary 5 Chinese Language classrooms in Singapore. Integrating quantitative and ...
Abstract In this paper we intend to provide a review of pinyin input experiment studies in Chines... more Abstract In this paper we intend to provide a review of pinyin input experiment studies in Chinese literacy instruction in China and to inform the current reform of Chinese education in Singapore. We first provide a brief account of some major pinyin-based methods for ...
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