Download or read book Phonological Awareness in Cantonese ESL Students written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Effect of Cantonese L1 Phonological Awareness on the Acquisition of English L2 Phonology Among Primary Students in Hong Kong written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Effect of Cantonese L1 Phonological Awareness on the Acquisition of English L2 Phonology Among Primary Students in Hongkong written by Lau-Luk Margery Yeung and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "On the Effect of Cantonese (L1) Phonological Awareness on the Acquisition of English (L2) Phonology Among Primary Students in HongKong" by Lau-luk, Margery, Yeung, 楊柳綠, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled On the Effect of Cantonese (L1) Phonological Awareness on the Acquisition of English (L2) Phonology among Primary Students in Hong Kong submitted by Yeung Lau Luk Margery for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in April 2007 Due to their logographic nature, Chinese characters are traditionally learned with a whole-word approach. Starting from kindergarten, students in Hong Kong learn Chinese and English words and attain bilingual literacy in this way. However, this type of learning results in low levels of both Cantonese (L1) and English (L2) phonological awareness (PA). Phonological awareness is not only significant for emergent literacy in an alphabetic language but also for decoding unfamiliar words. For this reason, Hong Kong students have difficulty learning to read English (especially sounding out and spelling unfamiliar words). Meanwhile, Chinese readers in mainland China and other places who learn to read Chinese with a phonetic script are found to have higher phonological awareness of Chinese (Bertelson, Chen & de Gelder, 1997; H. Cheung et al., 2001; Holm & Dodd, 1996; Huang & Hanley, 1995; Read et al., 1986). In light of the advantage brought about by a native phonetic script, the present research aims to investigate the effect of Cantonese phonological awareness on English learning by comparing the performances of an Experimental Group with phonological awareness training and a Control Group without training, both before and after training. Two experiments were conducted from 2003 to 2004. In the pilot experiment, the Experimental Group (n = 8) which had received 10 hours of Cantonese Romanisation instruction had no immediate advantage over the control group (n = 9) concerning their post-training English phonological awareness test. However, after the two groups had received 10 hours of English phonics instruction, the Experimental Group a made significantly bigger mean progress than the Control Group (p = 0.035) in their post-training English phonological awareness test. In the main experiment, the Experimental Group (n = 19) which had received 20 hours of Cantonese Romanisation instruction made a bigger mean progress than Control Group 1 (n = 20) and Control Group 2 (n = 17) together (p = 0.020). After the Experimental Group and Control Group 1 had received 20 hours of English phonics instruction, the former no longer seemed to have an edge over the latter. Despite some inconsistency of the findings, both experiments confirmed that Cantonese Romanisation instruction had a positive effect on English phonological awareness, be it a greater or a lesser extent compared with English phonics instruction. The findings from this research are consistent with previous findings on Hanyu Pinyin: (1) phonological awareness is trainable through native phonological awareness training, and (2) the improved native phonological awareness can transfer to a second language. In addition, this research also shows that Cantonese Romanisation instruction helps Hong Kong children learn English phonics more effectively. This is also consistent with Mok (2001) who showed the positive effect of Cantonese Romanisation instruction on the learning of Hanyu Pinyin. To conclude, Cantonese phonological awareness instruction is beneficial to the l
Download or read book On the Effect of Cantonese L1 Phonological Awareness on the Acquisition of English L2 Phonology Among Primary Students in Hong Kong written by Lau-luk Yeung (Margery) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Acquisition of English Grammar and Phonology by Cantonese ESL Learners written by Alice Yin Wa Chan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chan’s exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges that learners often encounter and posits ways to help them overcome those challenges. Possible sources of the challenges are also examined. The book covers the basic differences between English and Cantonese grammar as well as those between English and Cantonese phonology. Chan discusses the kinds of grammatical and phonological problems that Cantonese ESL learners often have in their acquisition of English. In terms of grammar, various structures are reviewed, including errors which are clearly due to L1 interference and also those which may not be directly L1-related. Learners’ common misconceptions about relevant concepts are also revealed. In terms of phonology, both speech perception and speech production problems at the segmental and suprasegmental levels are examined. For learner problems which may be the result of L1 interference, a contrastive approach is adopted in analysing the cause and nature of the errors. Chan also offers readers pedagogical insights to target common grammatical problems, including the use of an algorithmic approach, the use of a discovery-based consciousness-raising approach and the use of metalinguistic explanations. As far as the learning of English phonology is concerned, she argues that the training of speech production should go hand-in-hand with that of speech perception. Future research can experiment with the proposed teaching ideas with Cantonese ESL learners and learners of other native languages. Researchers and ESL teaching professionals will find the insights and research contained within this volume invaluable when encountering or researching Chinese ESL learners.
Download or read book Phonological Awareness of Cantonese speaking Language disordered Children written by Ka-po Wong (B.Sc., Gwen) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Influence of L2 on the Development of Phonological Awareness in Cantonese Speakers written by Hiu Yan Fiona Wong and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phonological Awareness in Native Cantonese speaking Children with Different English Competences written by Nui-ping Shum (Carol) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phonological Awareness in Cantonese English Bilingual Preschool Children written by Kin-ching Lam (Kobe) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Acquisition of English Grammar and Phonology by Cantonese ESL Learners written by ALICE YIN WA. CHAN and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chan's exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges that learners often encounter, and their origins, and posits ways to help them overcome the challenges. Possible sources of the challenges are also examined. The content covers the basic differences between English and Cantonese grammar as well as those between English and Cantonese phonology. Chan discusses the kinds of grammatical and phonological problems that Cantonese ESL learners often have in their acquisition of English. In terms of grammar, various structures are reviewed, including errors which are clearly due to L1 interference and also those which may not be directly L1-related. Learners' common misconceptions about relevant concepts are also revealed. In terms of phonology, both speech perception and speech production problems at the segmental and supra-segmental levels are examined. For learner problems which may be the result of L1 interference, a contrastive approach is adopted in analysing the cause and nature of the errors. Chan also offers readers pedagogical insights to target common grammatical problems, including the use of an algorithmic approach, the use of a discovery-based consciousness-raising approach, and the use of metalinguistic explanations. As far as the learning of English phonology is concerned, she argues that the training of speech production should go hand-in-hand with that of speech perception. Future research can experiment with the proposed teaching ideas with Cantonese ESL learners and learners of other native languages. Researchers and ESL teaching professionals will find the insights and research contained within this volume invaluable when encountering or researching Chinese ESL learners.
Download or read book Phonological Processing Skills microform Early Predictors of English Word Identification for Punjabi and Cantonese ESL Learners written by Melissa Jayne Bell and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phonological Awareness in 4 6 Year Old Cantonese speaking Children written by Yuen-man Woo (Cynthia) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phonological Awareness in Native Cantonese speaking Children in Hong Kong written by Yuk-hing Ngan (Candy) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phonological Awareness of Cantonese speaking Hearing impaired Adolescents written by Kam-yi Law (Ida) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching English Reading in the Chinese Speaking World written by Clay Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates inherent, structural differences in the Chinese and English writing systems which predispose learners from childhood to develop specific literacy-learning strategies, which can impair later efforts at learning foreign language literacy if the foreign language script varies significantly from the native language script. It compares educational practices and philosophies in Chinese and English-speaking classrooms, and examines the psychological underpinnings of these literacy learning strategies. This book presents psychometric testing of adult reading strategy defaults and examines case study data, revealing that Chinese students are susceptible to misapplying Chinese character-level processing strategies to English word identification tasks, which decreases reading efficiency, and ultimately can lead to learning failure. Finally, a new educational framework is proposed for teaching beginning language-specific word identification and literacy-learning skills to learners whose first language script varies significantly from that of the target language.
Download or read book written by Frank Joseph Shulman and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A descriptively annotated, multidisciplinary, cross-referenced and extensively indexed guide to 2,395 dissertations that are concerned either in whole or in part with Hong Kong and with Hong Kong Chinese students and emigres throughout the world.
Download or read book The Phonology of Guangzhou Cantonese written by Ming Chao Gui and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
