Onset Age of Language Acquisition Effects in a Foreign Language Context: Evidence from Chinese–English Bilingual Children
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DOI: 10.1007/s10936-019-09637-y
Abstract: The present study examined the relationship between age of acquisition (AoA) and bilingual development for native Chinese children who learned English as a foreign language. A composite test measuring different aspects of language and cognitive… read more here.
Keywords: onset age; acquisition; language; foreign language ... See more keywords
The roles of metalinguistic skills in Chinese–English biliteracy development
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DOI: 10.1007/s11145-017-9778-5
Abstract: The study examined the role of phonological awareness and morphological awareness in concurrent and subsequent oral vocabulary among Chinese–English bilingual children who learned Chinese as their heritage language and English as their societal language. Ninety-one… read more here.
Keywords: awareness; morphological awareness; roles metalinguistic; oral vocabulary ... See more keywords
Timeline blurring in fluent Chinese-English bilinguals
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DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.07.008
Abstract: Linguistic relativity effects arising from differences in terminology and syntax between languages have now been established in various domains of human cognition. Although metaphors have been shown to affect time conceptualisation, there is little evidence… read more here.
Keywords: time; reference time; fluent chinese; native speakers ... See more keywords
How essential is the essential resilience scale? Differential item functioning of Chinese and English versions and criterion validity
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DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.109666
Abstract: Abstract The Essential Resilience Scale (ERS) is a locally developed measure conceptualized by Chinese researchers and demonstrated strong psychometric properties in Chinese residents. The present study recruited undergraduate students from China (N = 375) and Canada (N = 378)… read more here.
Keywords: resilience scale; essential resilience; differential item; criterion validity ... See more keywords
給青少年犯事者一個機會：社會回應的演變 (In Chinese) [English Title: Responding to youth crime in Hong Kong: penal elitism, legitimacy and citizenship]
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DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2019.1592802
Abstract: The purpose of this book is to provide scholars, researchers, policymakers, and students a succinct and comprehensive overview of penal elitism as the underpinning ideology in response to youth cri... read more here.
Keywords: title responding; youth; penal elitism; elitism ... See more keywords
Neural-based automatic scoring model for Chinese-English interpretation with a multi-indicator assessment
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DOI: 10.1080/09540091.2022.2078279
Abstract: Manual evaluation could be time-consuming, unreliable and unreproducible in Chinese-English interpretation. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an automatic scoring system. This paper proposes an accurate automatic scoring model for Chinese-English interpretation via a multi-indicator… read more here.
Keywords: english interpretation; chinese english; scoring model; automatic scoring ... See more keywords
Translanguaging in a Chinese–English bilingual education programme: a university-classroom ethnography
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DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2018.1526254
Abstract: ABSTRACT Since 2001, Chinese–English bilingual education has been officially promoted in many universities in mainland China. It has, however, recently been criticised for not only failing to improve students’ English proficiency, but also impeding subject… read more here.
Keywords: programme; classroom; bilingual education; education ... See more keywords
Predicting Chinese and English interrogative development in a multilingual context: a corpus-based study of Singapore preschoolers
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DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2019.1662368
Abstract: This study elicited and analyzed all the Chinese and English interrogatives from the Singapore Early Child Mandarin Corpus (132 children aged 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, and 5;6) to examine the effects and pred... read more here.
Keywords: english interrogative; study; corpus; interrogative development ... See more keywords
A cross-cultural pragmatic study of rapport-management strategies in Chinese and English academic upward request emails
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DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2016.1253707
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article discusses and compares how Chinese and English postgraduate students manage a harmonious relationship with university instructors by managing rapport and doing relational work in their academic request emails. The rapport-management strategies were… read more here.
Keywords: management strategies; rapport management; management; request emails ... See more keywords
Brain bases of morphological processing in Chinese-English bilingual children.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.12449
Abstract: Can bilingual exposure impact children's neural circuitry for learning to read? To answer this question, we investigated the brain bases of morphological awareness, one of the key spoken language abilities for learning to read in… read more here.
Keywords: morphological processing; bases morphological; brain bases; processing chinese ... See more keywords
Mapping the small-world properties of brain networks in Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting by using functional near-infrared spectroscopy
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DOI: 10.1142/s1793545818400011
Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the small-world properties of functional brain networks in Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting (SI) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).... read more here.
Keywords: networks chinese; small world; world properties; brain networks ... See more keywords