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Teaching Mandarin as a foreign language in Higher Education institutions in South Africa
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2013 Foreign language learning is a hallmark of the internationalisation of university education and a key to enabling graduates to participate in a globalising world. Currently, China is both a global political player and a key market and trading partner for
Qi, Y (Wang)
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Languages, 2022 Languages vary systematically in how semantic information is “packaged” in verbs and verb-related constructions. Mandarin Chinese contrasts typologically with English in its lexicalization of state change. Most Mandarin monomorphemic verbs are moot about
Jidong Chen, Zhiying Qian
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Color Image Norms in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The present study comprises two parts, an object picture naming task and rating tasks, and reports naming latencies and norms for 435 color images in Mandarin Chinese. These norms include name agreement (%), H-value, concept agreement, familiarity, visual complexity, age of acquisition (AOA) based on adult ratings, object agreement, viewpoint agreement,
Dandan Zhou +5 more
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Topicality and (Non-)Specificity in Mandarin [PDF]
, 2001 Current analyses of specificity are unable to provide an explanatory account for why specific and nonspecific uses of indefinites are available. While Abusch (1994), Reinhart (1997), and Kratzer (1998) provide successful mechanisms for deriving specific ...
Portner, Paul
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MandarinableSilk Mandarin (丝合汉语), as a Chinese language teaching organization, exemplifies the growing global interest in Mandarin. By leveraging platforms such as Instagram, Silk Mandarin actively promotes and disseminates Chinese language education internationally
Irvan Aditya Tela +2 more
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Production of neutral tone in Mandarin by heritage, native, and second language speakers [PDF]
, 2019 This study examined the properties of neutral tone (T0) in Mandarin as produced by three groups: native speakers raised in a Mandarin-speaking environment (L1ers), second language learners raised in an English-speaking environment (L2ers), and heritage ...
Chang, Charles, Yao, Yao
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Learning tone distinctions for Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Interspeech 2007, 2007 We describe the SpeakGoodChinese system that supports beginning students of Mandarin Chinese to produce tones correctly (http://speakgoodchinese.org/). Students pronounce a word spelled in pinyin notation and receive feedback from our system on their production of the tones.
Weenink, D.J.M. +6 more
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Literator, 2019 The South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) listed Mandarin as a second additional language (SAL) (Grades 4–9) in the National Curriculum Statement Grades R to 12 in 2015.
Norma M. Nel +2 more
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Motivasi Belajar Bahasa Mandarin sebagai Bahasa Kedua
Humaniora, 2013 The goals of article was to explore students’ main motivation in learning Mandarin as second language acquisition and the difference motivation between Chinese-descending and non-chinese students.
Yi Ying +2 more
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Cadernos de Linguística, 2020 Adult L2 learners have difficulties in perceiving and producing L2 speech sounds. In analyzing learners’ L2 speech learning problems, this study provides research data from a series of studies on L2 speech perception, production, and training.
Xinchun Wang
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