teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese
How and why Mandarin Chinese is introduced into secondary schools in England
... – learning language by listening to it ...different learning styles, finding that more than half of the participants were visual ...different learning styles would find different aspects of ...
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Mandarin Chinese. Foundation Course
... Method teaching tradition and faithfully follow Michel Thomas’s unique approach to foreign language ...The teaching is all in English, while native speakers give models for perfect pronunciation and ...
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Communicative focus on form and second language suprasegmental learning: teaching Cantonese learners to perceive mandarin tones
... second-level Mandarin heritage classes open to students whose L1 was Cantonese or another Chinese ...no Mandarin background but speak Cantonese as L1 to enroll, and the second level accepts those who ...
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Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in Mandarin Chinese
... a Mandarin SVC as a sentence with two or more juxtaposed verb phrases or clauses without any marker indicating their ...clause”. Chinese linguists began to study this phenomenon around 1950’s (Wang 1954, ...
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Unsupervized Word Segmentation: the Case for Mandarin Chinese
... in terms of preprocessing and prior knowledge given to the systems. For example, Wang et al. (2011) used different levels of preprocessing (which they call “settings”). In their settings 1 and 2, Wang et al. (2011) try ...
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That “certain cut”: towards a characterology of Mandarin Chinese
... In Mandarin, as in many East Asian languages, time as construed grammatically is essentially aspectual: it is not anchored in the present, as in systems of tense where every instance is marked as either past, ...
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De in Mandarin Chinese
... If we assume that head-initial de shares the Case-marking properties of head-final de, we can say that in sentences (19)-(21), de governs the subject in the embedded clauses and assigns [r] ...
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Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K. Wheatley, 4/07 UNIT 1
... Rote learning, very highly prized in traditional and even modern China, and highly valued at other times in our own past, is no longer generally considered a beneficial educational method in the ...suitable ...
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MATBN: A Mandarin Chinese Broadcast News Corpus
... The transcripts are in Big5-encoded form, with SGML tagging to annotate acoustic conditions, background conditions, story boundaries, speaker turn boundaries, and audible acoustic events, such as hesitations, ...
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On Argument-Adjunct Asymmetry of Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese
... (1995) insightful analysis of LF Copying Theory. Departing from their analysis in crucial respects, however, I argue that a covert wh-movement also takes place simultaneously with the operation of copying the antecedent ...
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Measuring and Comparing the Productivity of Mandarin Chinese Suffixes
... the field, -men could be viewed as an inflectional affix, and the other four suffixes could be considered derivational affixes. There are three major characteristics of -men that differentiate -men from the English ...
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Semantic Communicative Structure and Word Order in Mandarin Chinese
... in Mandarin Chinese (hence- forth MC) is determined to a great extent by informational/ communicative considerations (we will use the term “commu- nicative” throughout this ...
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Review of Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language: Emerging Trends
... Increasing Chinese Language and Cultural Proficiency Through Open Access Online Technology, by Dali Tan, Angela Gunder, Shaoyu Chi, and Susan Picard, the volume introduced an effort on computer-assisted language ...
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The Teaching and Learning Status of Chemical Safety in Chinese Universities and Reform Suggestions on It
... Chemical Safety is a course with typical industry background. It is a branch of science and technology that, in order to prevent and control chemical accidents, applies safety science, safety technology, and safety ...
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Valence alternations and marking structures in a HPSG grammar for Mandarin Chinese
... a Chinese grammar fragment; the framework HPSG is well-suited for the analy- sis of Chinese since it makes a minimal num- ber of empirical assumptions about linguistic ob- jects while providing the grammar ...
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Joint Grammar and Treebank Development for Mandarin Chinese with HPSG
... the Chinese grammar development will benefit from these previous experiences, as well as empha- size the tight integration with the treebank development, which brings feedbacks from the corpus analysis to the ...
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ChinGram: A TRALE Implementation of an HPSG Fragment for Mandarin Chinese
... This section briefly describes some analyses adopted in the grammar. After describing the set of immediate schemata that we use for Chinese, we consider localizers and locative phrases, ex- istential constructions ...
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A Logic Based Government Binding Parser for Mandarin Chinese
... A Logic Based Government Binding Parser for Mandarin Chinese A L o g i c B a s e d G o v e r n m e n t B i n d i n g P a r s e r f o r M a n d a r i n C h i n e s e ttsin Hsi CHEN Department of Comput[.] ...
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