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“All Native Speakers” at Singapore's ESL Schools: Implications for TESOL Communities in the Pursuit of Diversity‐Based Professionalism

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores an understudied question of who teaches English in the Singaporean English language teaching (ELT) industry. Study 1 analyzed the website contents of ESL schools, and Study 2 conducted questionnaire surveys and interviews with three schools.
Yoko Kobayashi
wiley   +1 more source

Interactive Videos in Multimodal Listening Assessments: Examining Language Learners' Perspectives

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The academic success of international students who speak English as a second language (L2) hinges on their ability to effectively communicate and comprehend information in English, which requires well‐developed listening skills. Given that real‐world listening mostly involves processing both auditory and visual information, incorporating ...
Shanshan He, Ruslan Suvorov
wiley   +1 more source

Vocal characteristics of English and Mandarin produced by Mandarin-English and English-Mandarin bilingual speakers : a long-term average spectral analysis [PDF]

, 2012
The present study aims to examine the possible acoustical differences between languages (English and Mandarin) and ethnicities (Chinese and American). Sixteen Chinese (8 males and 8 females) and fourteen American bilingual adults were recruited (8 males ...
莊旖瀅, Chong, Yee-ying
core  

Gender Empowerment and Climate‐Smart Agriculture: Insights and Implications for Achieving Gender Equity and Climate Resilience

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of male and female empowerment, as well as gender empowerment inequality, on the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Using a conditional mixed process model, we analyse survey data from 743 households across Henan, Shandong and Hebei provinces in China.
Junpeng Li, Wanglin Ma, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Ziqi Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring health-related quality of life in a Chinese Mainland adolescent population: psychometric properties of the Mandarin Chinese self-reported KIDSCREEN-27 and KIDSCREEN-10 index

BMC Psychology
Background The self-reported KIDSCREEN questionnaires are ideal for capturing children’s and adolescents’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and have gained worldwide popularity. Responding to demands for the concise nature of KIDSCREEN among Chinese
Juan Li, Yuhang Zhu, Gaopei Zhu, Zhenliang Qiu, Jinling Wang, Anne Kaman, Michael Erhart, Adekunle Adedeji, Yongye Liu, Di Wu, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, the WFMU-KS-MC research group   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

AISHELL-1: An Open-Source Mandarin Speech Corpus and A Speech Recognition Baseline

, 2017
An open-source Mandarin speech corpus called AISHELL-1 is released. It is by far the largest corpus which is suitable for conducting the speech recognition research and building speech recognition systems for Mandarin.
Bu, Hui, Du, Jiayu, Na, Xingyu, Wu, Bengu, Zheng, Hao   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Rising Tides, Falling Harvests: Examining the Effects of Salinity Intrusion on Paddy Production in Vietnam's Mekong Delta

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rising sea levels and salinity intrusion increasingly threaten rice farming in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Using a district‐level panel dataset from 2000 to 2020, this study examines the impacts of salinity on Winter–Spring rice yields and acreage and how farmers adapt to salinity risk.
Huong Nguyen, Bradford Mills, Chi Ta, Shamar L. Stewart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge about schizophrenia test: the Chinese Mandarin version and its sociodemographic and clinical factors. [PDF]

BMC Psychiatry, 2023
Wang M, Zhao M, Zhang W, Li W, He R, Ding R, He P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

My Love-Hate Relationship with Mandarin [PDF]

, 2018
Postcard from Mihretabe Gizaw, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the China Studies Institute at Peking University in Beijing ...
Gizaw, Mihretabe
core   +1 more source