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Identical topics in Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese [PDF]

, 2013
Identical topic (IT henceforth) was previously known as copying topic (Xu & Liu (1998:141-157). It is fully or partially identical to a corresponding element (CE henceforth) occurring in the following part of the clause.
Liu, Danqing
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Reconceptualising ‘agency in mobility’: Agency for becoming and other forms of agency in study abroad

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Study‐abroad programs are increasingly adopted and supported by institutions and governments as a strategic tool for deepening internationalisation and public diplomacy through people‐to‐people, institution‐to‐institution and country‐to‐country connections.
Ly Thi Tran, Thinh Huynh
wiley   +1 more source

‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng, Charlotte Bagnall, Caroline Bond, Elizabeth Birchinall, Pamela Qualter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language Experience Shapes Neural Grouping of Speech by Accent: EEG Evidence from Native, Second-Language, and Heritage Listeners

Brain Sciences
Background: Accented speech contains talker-indexical cues that listeners can use to infer social group membership, yet it remains unclear how the auditory system categorizes accent variability and how this process depends on language experience. Methods:
Lauren L. Hong, Chao Han, Philip J. Monahan   +2 more
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Telicization in Mandarin Chinese

Journal of Linguistics, 2022
This paper investigates aspectual meanings that resultative morphemes in Mandarin Chinese contribute to interpretations of the entire predicates, and in particular the culmination readings they bring out of the originally non-culminating accomplishments.
openaire   +1 more source

Yes/no questions in mandarin chinese revisited [PDF]

, 2013
This article discusses some syntactic peculiarities of Chinese yes/no questions. Starting from the observation that Standard Mandarin shares significant typological features with prototypical SOV languages, Chinese is treated as an underlyingly verb ...
Gasde, Horst-Dieter
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How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

Research on the Current State of Chinese Language Teaching in the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
Teaching mandarin is a part of the teaching foreign languages in the world. The teaching targets are the groups of teaching mandarin as the second language. However, regarding the mandarin teaching materials in overseas areas aren't optimistic.
Lestari Dian, Pujiastuti Indah
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Training Non-tonal Speakers in the Perception and Production of Mandarin Tones in Disyllabic Words [PDF]

, 2011
[[abstract]]This thesis aims to address the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical issues of tonal acquisition in a second language (L2). The present study investigated the effects of three training approaches on the perceptual and production ...
Hsia, Ai-Wen, 夏艾雯
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source