Download or read book Mandarin Competence of Chinese English Bilingual Preschoolers written by Hock Huan Goh and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides readers with a detailed sketch of the Mandarin competence of Chinese children in Singapore from different home language backgrounds. Their Mandarin competence is defined in terms of lexical diversity, syntactic complexity and code-switching tendency. The findings presented show that there are statistical differences in lexical diversity and syntactic complexity among the compared groups of children, and these differences in linguistic competence were found to be positively correlated to increased Mandarin exposure at home. They also demonstrate that there are statistical differences in code-switching tendency among the groups of children compared, which were found to be negatively correlated to increased exposure to Mandarin at home. A general relationship between home language exposure and Mandarin competence was established, although this relationship was found to be volatile, especially among children who are more bilingually exposed. This book shares these findings with linguists, language educators, and language policymakers, both local and international.

Download or read book Mandarin Competence of Chinese English Bilingual Preschoolers written by Hock Huan Goh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides readers with a detailed sketch of the Mandarin competence of Chinese children in Singapore from different home language backgrounds. Their Mandarin competence is defined in terms of lexical diversity, syntactic complexity and code-switching tendency. The findings presented show that there are statistical differences in lexical diversity and syntactic complexity among the compared groups of children, and these differences in linguistic competence were found to be positively correlated to increased Mandarin exposure at home. They also demonstrate that there are statistical differences in code-switching tendency among the groups of children compared, which were found to be negatively correlated to increased exposure to Mandarin at home. A general relationship between home language exposure and Mandarin competence was established, although this relationship was found to be volatile, especially among children who are more bilingually exposed. This book shares these findings with linguists, language educators, and language policymakers, both local and international.

Download or read book I Learn I Speak written by Peter S Xu and published by Paraxus International, Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please go to http: //www.ilearnispeak.com/books/numbers/samplebook/numbers_and_counting_sample.html for some high resolution sample pages. "Learn Chinese - Basic Skills for Preschool Learners of English and Chinese, Volume 4: Numbers and Counting" is the fourth book in a series of four workbooks designed to help parents and teachers introduce basic preschool skills in both English and Mandarin Chinese. Most products on the market achieve only one of those goals, leaving you to use two sets of materials - one for teaching language learning, and one for teaching basic preschool skills. Our product is different. It teaches all the basic preschool skills in both English and Mandarin Chinese, helping young learners to develop the skills needed for entry into school, and starting them on a lifelong path of bilingual education. With bright colored, sometimes exaggerated and funny illustrations, and instructions in both languages, parents and teachers are provided with the tools you need to teach your children in a bilingual atmosphere. For parents and teachers who are not fluent in both languages, an online supplement provides all audio from the text in both English and Chinese. In this volume, children are introduced to numbers 0-20 and counting.

Download or read book I Learn I Speak written by Peter S. Xu and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please go to http: //www.ilearnispeak.com/books/colorsandshapes/samplebook/colors_and_shapes_sample.html for some high resolution sample pages. "Learn Chinese - Basic Skills for Preschool Learners of English and Chinese, Volume 1: Colors and Shapes" is the first book in a series of four workbooks designed to help parents and teachers introduce basic preschool skills in both English and Mandarin Chinese. Most products on the market achieve only one of those goals, leaving you to use two sets of materials - one for teaching language learning, and one for teaching basic preschool skills. Our product is different. It teaches all the basic preschool skills in both English and Mandarin Chinese, helping young learners to develop the skills needed for entry into school, and starting them on a lifelong path of bilingual education. With bright colored, sometimes exaggerated and funny illustrations, and instructions in both languages, parents and teachers are provided with the tools you need to teach your children in a bilingual atmosphere. For parents and teachers who are not fluent in both languages, an online supplement provides all audio from the text in both English and Chinese. In this volume, children are introduced to colors and shapes. They will learn the names for colors and shapes in both English and Chinese, while having fun coloring the vivid illustrations.

Download or read book Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore written by Kay Cheng Soh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the experiences of Chinese Language researchers in Singapore to Chinese Language researchers and teachers in other countries and regions, such as the USA, the UK and Asia, that are home to a large number of learners, young and old. As such, the innovative ideas it provides can be applied in practising teachers’ classrooms to promote more effective and efficient student learning. Beyond pedagogical innovations, the book also includes papers on the assessment of Chinese Language learning and teacher literacy – two areas that have been largely neglected by the Chinese Language research and teaching communities, not only here in Singapore, but also around the world. This book, the sequel to “Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore: Retrospect and Challenges” (Springer, 2016), is future-oriented, highlighting ideas that merit further attention from researchers and practitioners alike.

Download or read book Mina s Scavenger Hunt Bilingual Chinese with Pinyin and English Simplified Chinese Version written by Katrina Liu and published by Katrina Liu. This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a list on one hand and her puppy, Musubi, by her side, Mina plays an exciting game of scavenger hunt! They have lots of fun using clues to discover and collect treasures! Your child will love this adorable story while learning everyday dialog and common adjectives in Chinese.This fun interactive story is written for children ages 2 to 6 in Simplified Chinese with a free audio reading in Mandarin. A Traditional Chinese version is also separately available. ★ A fantastic Mandarin immersion resource for non-native speakers! ★ Give your child the opportunity to become bilingual! Research shows that learning a second language can boost problem-solving, critical thinking, listening skills, memory, concentration, ability to multitask, and even unlock more career opportunities. There are so many benefits when you start at a young age. All of Katrina Liu's books are intended for non-native speakers and parents interested in fostering the development of dual-language with their children. Each book contains vibrant full-color illustrations, large Chinese characters with Pinyin and English for support. They are written in everyday dialog making it easier for beginner learners to pick up the language. Katrina Liu is an American-born-Chinese mom and author. Her goal is to create beautiful engaging books that support non-native speakers for children and adults alike. Her books include relatable experiences and cultural differences that resonate with modern-day American families which many books from China do not have. ♥ Check out other Mina Learns Chinese books at: minalearnschinese.com Mina’s First Day of School - Mina goes to school for the first time! This book showcases the many ways of saying Yes and No in Chinese. I Love My Grandpa - Mina has an idea for her puppy! Filled with fun and creativity, Mina teams up with her grandpa (her Gong gong) to bring her idea to life! Mina’s Ups and Downs - It's an exciting day at the carnival with Mina and her parents! With so much to do and see, Mina experiences a rollercoaster of emotions and feelings throughout the day. Free audio readings in Mandarin Chinese are available at: minalearnschinese.com/audioreading

Download or read book I Love My Grandpa Bilingual Chinese with Pinyin and English Traditional Chinese Version written by Katrina Liu and published by Katrina Liu. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mina has a brilliant idea for her puppy, but she can’t do it alone! She spends a fun-filled day with her grandpa, creating, building and developing their special bond. Join Mina and Gong Gong (grandpa) as they team up to bring her idea to life! This book showcases everyday dialog to support your child in Chinese learning. Written for children ages 2 to 6 in Traditional Chinese, Pinyin and English, this sweet story with vibrant illustrations is easy to follow. It is also separately available in Simplified Chinese. Your little one will learn common conversational sentences in Chinese as well as new vocabulary! ★ A fantastic Mandarin immersion resource for non-native speakers! ★ Give your child the opportunity to become bilingual! Research shows that learning a second language can boost problem-solving, critical thinking, listening skills, memory, concentration, ability to multitask, and even unlock more career opportunities. There are so many benefits when you start at a young age. All of Katrina Liu's books are intended for non-native speakers and parents interested in fostering the development of dual-language with their children. Each book contains vibrant full-color illustrations, large Chinese characters with Pinyin and English for support. They are written in everyday dialog making it easier for beginner learners to pick up the language. Katrina Liu is an American-born-Chinese mom and author. Her goal is to create beautiful engaging books that support non-native speakers for children and adults alike. Her books include relatable experiences and cultural differences that resonate with modern-day American families which many books from China do not have. ♥ Check out other Mina Learns Chinese books at: minalearnschinese.com Mina’s First Day of School - Mina goes to school for the first time! This book showcases the many ways of saying Yes and No in Chinese. Mina’s Scavenger Hunt - Mina plays an exciting game of scavenger hunt as she searches around her home to collect a list of treasures. This interactive book is a great way to learn common adjectives in Chinese. Mina’s Ups and Downs - It's an exciting day at the carnival with Mina and her parents! With so much to do and see, Mina experiences a rollercoaster of emotions and feelings throughout the day. Free audio readings in Mandarin Chinese are available at: minalearnschinese.com/audioreading

Download or read book First Words in Chinese written by Jane Thai and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Words in Chinese was created to help your child begin and build his first words in Chinese. This easy to follow picture word book is written in both English and simplified Chinese. Children learn best with visuals and can be taught to be bilingual at a very young age. In fact it is recommended that they learn another language as early as possible. This book contains many everyday objects and animals that children will see. Help your child reinforce vocabulary by pointing to real life objects at home or anywhere else. If you do not speak Chinese, you can still help teach your child and give him/her a starting foundation to work with. Designed to help parents and their children learn vocabulary together as a bonding family experience. Learning as a family is always fun.

Download or read book Crossing Boundaries in Researching Understanding and Improving Language Education written by Dongbo Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together original papers from language education scholars from around the world to explore, exemplify, and discuss the multiplicity of boundary crossing in language education. It emphasizes the potential of boundary crossing for expansive learning, and aims to generate new insights, through boundary crossing, into the complexity of language education and approaches to innovative practices. This volume also underscores the important role of expert boundary crossers. In particular, it aims to honor G. Richard Tucker, Paul Mellon University Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, celebrating his distinguished scholarship on language education and paying tribute to the inspiration and mentorship he has given to the contributors of this volume to cross boundaries academically and professionally. This volume is organized into four sections, namely, language learning and development; teachers and instructional processes; program innovation, implementation, and evaluation; and language-in-education policy and planning. These sections or themes, which are necessarily cross-cutting, also represent the major areas of scholarship where Prof. Tucker has made distinguished contributions for over half a century.

Download or read book Bilingual Chinese English Story Book with Pinyin For Kids written by 小龙之梦 Dream of the Young Dragon and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny Small Animal Stories in English, Mandarin Chinese And Pinyin. Suitable For Young Adults Learning to Read in Chinese Language And Practice Pinyin. Little Monkey Meets A Cute Hedgehog on his way going downhill. Together they start an adventure. They talk to each other in an interesting daily Chinese way.... What would they experience? Let's find out...

Download or read book The Wheels The Friendship Race written by Inna Nusinsky and published by KidKiddos Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Chinese (Mandarin Simplified) Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kid studying English or Chinese as their second language. What is friendship? Join three good friends as they discover what real friendship means. They start a race, but decide to finish it together, helping a friend who got in trouble. This book will teach children positive friendship skills like sharing, supporting, and helping each other.

Download or read book Remote Online Language Assessment Eliciting Discourse from Children and Adults written by Natalia Gagarina and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being able to collect valid data is crucial for empirical science disciplines such as linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, clinical psycholinguistics and speech and hearing sciences. In recent years there has been an increasing use of digital devices for remote language assessments, such as online elicitation of language samples, apps for eliciting expressive and productive lexical abilities, and online questionnaires. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic still affecting many lives globally, there have been numerous disruptions of face-to-face, in-person language assessments, leading many researchers to conduct their language assessments online. Despite the necessity of remote language assessments and the convenience they may bring to both assessors and assessees, the potential merits, limits, and problems of remote testing have not yet been systematically explored and understood. This timely Research Topic seeks contributions that mobilize new evidence and/or insightful and nuanced discussions to address questions such as: can we control online testing so that it is as good as face-to-face, in-person testing, and, if so, how? Do we have evaluative evidence of such practices, and if so, how robust is the evidence? What adaptations and concerns can and cannot be accommodated at the present time? What opportunities are offered by recent technological advances? Are there certain conditions in which online testing works better or worse? Last but not least, how do differences between offline, in-person language assessments and online, remote assessments affect the results of testing? The current topic has two main foci: the first deals with the assessment of conversational discourse in general and narrative discourse in particular, in both children and young adults. Communicative competence at the discourse level has been considered an essential and ecologically valid component in language assessments of children and adults, for three key reasons: 1) this competence is crucial for an individual’s everyday functioning and academic and social life, 2) it provides information about an individual’s socio-cognitive and linguistic abilities, and 3) it is a versatile test of language skills at the levels of content, form, use and their integration. The second focus is on comparing the results elicited via in-person assessments and remote, online assessments. This Research Topic welcomes empirical articles discussing new evidence, perspective and opinion papers on issues at the conceptual-methodological interface, and methods articles presenting approaches that can offer opportunities for remote testing of developmental discourse supported by recent technological advances. Potential themes may include, but are not limited to: • comparisons of remote versus in-person testing modes using a within-participants research design • learner variables such as age, gender, language status (monolingual, multilingual), and clinical status (typically-developing children and adults, children and adults with clinical conditions such as (developmental) language disorder, autism spectrum disorder) which may affect the efficacy of remote testing • linguistic variables such as the use of referential and relational devices and mental state language which may be subject to more variations when being assessed remotely • new methods that offer opportunities for the remote testing of developmental and adult discourse, supported by recent technological advances • articles addressing the same research question within developmental narrative discourse but using different (i.e. either online or offline) research methods.

Download or read book At Home written by Victor Dias de Oliveira Santos and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this multi-award-winning and colorful book with large real images and audio by native speakers, children will learn the name and pronunciation of 38 common objects around the home in both Mandarin Chinese and English. Audio pronunciation by a native speaker of each language is available right from the book for each word.

Download or read book Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese Speaking Children written by Zhu Hua and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other European languages, as with the field of child language development in general. This volume, originally published in Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1 (2012), brings together a team of researchers from China, the UK, USA, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. It explores the development of pragmatic and discourse skills among Chinese-speaking children by investigating the development of pragmatic features specific to the Chinese language and culture (i.e. the use of null forms and overt forms in self/other reference and time expressions), socio-cultural factors in child-directed speech and comprehension of semiotic resources in children’s early childhood. The studies reported in the volume draw upon data of different kinds including recorded spontaneous speech, corpus, questionnaires and experimental data. The findings not only highlight a number of developmental patterns which may be attributed to the Chinese language(s) and culture, but also contribute to the understanding of some key issues in the development of pragmatic and discourse skills irrespective of linguistic backgrounds.

Download or read book Childhood Bilingualism written by Peggy D. McCardle and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective and next steps for research on childhood bilingualism.

Download or read book Chinese English Dual Language Immersion Programs written by Ko-Yin Sung and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese dual language immersion (DLI) education experienced unprecedented growth in recent years; hence, it has become critical that Chinese DLI research catches up to inform Chinese DLI teachers and administrators of the most effective ways to teach and run their programs. The purpose of Chinese-English Dual Language Immersion Programs: Content Area Instruction, Learners, and Evaluations is to explore three DLI themes that are under-researched: content area instruction, learners, and evaluations. The first section of this edited volume is dedicated to exploring current teaching designs and practices in different content subjects in Chinese DLI programs in order to make useful teaching suggestions to the programs. The second section includes studies which look into K-12 Chinese DLI learners’ learning variables such as motivations, learning strategies, learner perception and engagement, and learner background differences. The last section of this edited volume intends to fill the research gap by including studies which adopt various methods to evaluate Chinese DLI students’ target language level to better illustrate their learning progress in different language skills.

Download or read book Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Settings written by Aydin Yücesan Durgunoglu and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this book explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success. Chapters examine the cognitive bases of English acquisition, and how the process is different for children from alphabetic (such as Spanish) and nonalphabetic (such as Chinese) language backgrounds. The book addresses a key challenge facing educators and clinicians: identifying students whose poor English skills may indicate an underlying impairment, as opposed to still-developing language proficiency. Implications for diagnosis, intervention, and instruction are highlighted throughout.