Download or read book The Acquisition of English Phonological Awareness in Mandarin speaking Children written by Pi-Yu Chiang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Children s Reading Acquisition written by Wenling Li and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published research and conference presentations on the Chinese language in the last decade have tended to focus on adult language processing. This book provides a comprehensive resource for the critical discussion of major issues in learning to read Chinese from a child acquisition perspective. The combined contributions from researchers in Asian studies, linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, cognitive psychology, reading, and education inform international comparative studies of literacy by making apparent the features of the Chinese culture, language, writing system, and pedagogy that may facilitate or impede the acquisition of literacy.
Download or read book Reading Acquisition of Chinese as a Second Foreign Language Volume II written by Linjun Zhang and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phonological Development in Specific Contexts written by Zhu Hua and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of phonological development and impairment of Chinese-speaking children. It provides the first normative data on this population, which will be of value to speech and language therapists and other professionals. It also advances the notion of 'phonological saliency' which explains the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in children's phonological development.
Download or read book Phonological Awareness in Mandarin of Chinese and Americans written by 胡敏 and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonological awareness (PA) is the ability to analyze spoken language into its component sounds and to manipulate these smaller units. Literature review related to PA shows that a variety of factor groups play a role in PA in Mandarin such as linguistic experience (spoken language, alphabetic literacy, and second language learning), item type, tone context, musical ability, and talker variability. However, most of previous studies focus on the PA of Mandarin tones; only few studies have compared native speakers of Chinese and of other world languages on all levels of PA in Mandarin. The present study is a factorial examination of the effect of various factor groups discussed above on all levels of PA in Mandarin (syllable awareness, onset awareness, rhyme awareness, and tone awareness) by four groups of participants with different linguistic experience, each group having 10 participants. The first and second groups included non-Mandarin Chinese speakers with or without Pinyin alphabetic literacy. The third and fourth groups consisted of native speakers of American English with or without learning experience with Mandarin. Participants were given a syllable same-different task, an onset oddity task, a rhyme oddity task, and a tone identification task. Logistic regression and Chi Square analyses were performed on the responses to these tasks to determine the conditioning effect of different factor groups. Error analyses were also conducted to examine error patterns of the tone awareness task. In addition to confirming the heterogeneity of overall PA established in earlier research, the results demonstrate the relative contributions of several factor groups such as alphabetic literacy, item type, and tone context and raises questions about the relevance of several others such as musical ability and sex of talker. It also provides implications for instructional practice.
Download or read book Trilingual Education of Uyghur Children written by Wei Xiaobao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the differences in the orthographic structure of the Uyghur, Chinese and English languages, this study used a mixed-method approach to systematically describe and analyze the phonological awareness of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners and its contributions to their trilingual literacy acquisition and development. Focusing on the development of these learners' phonological awareness in Uyghur, Chinese and English, this study explored the influences of Uyghur and Chinese learning on the formation of their English phonological awareness and the roles of different components of phonological awareness in their trilingual literacy development. Based on the characteristics of the phonetic structure in Uyghur, Chinese and English and the development of Uyghur children's phonological awareness in these languages, a Chinese phonetic identification training and Uyghur–Chinese–English comprehensive phonetic training program (including intensive phoneme category contrast training and phonics training) was designed to explore whether such targeted phonetic identification training can effectively improve these children's phonological awareness in Chinese and English and thus further promote their trilingual literacy development. This book will appeal to researchers and students interested in the fields of psycholinguistics, language acquisition and multilingual education.
Download or read book The Role of Phonological Awareness in Native and Second Language Reading Development written by Miu-Ying Li 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, "The Role of Phonological Awareness in Native and Second Language Reading Development" by Miu-ying, Li, 李妙英, 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 dissertation entitled "The Role of Phonological Awareness in Native and Second Language Reading Development" Submitted by Li Miu Ying, Miriam for the degree of Master of Arts at The University of Hong Kong in June 2006 In recent years, there has been a great deal of work devoted to the study of component skills that are necessary to sustain a success in reading English and Chinese. Phonological awareness is found to be a critical component of reading development. This study examined the role of phonological awareness in second language reading st th development. The subjects were 20 1 and 4 graders in Hong Kong, whose native spoken language is Cantonese. Children's performance on both English and Chinese reading ability and phonological awareness were examined. Results of hierarchical regression analyses and Pearson correlations showed that (a) phonological awareness at onset-rime level predicts English reading success at lower grade; (b) phonological awareness at phoneme level predicts English reading success at higher grade; (c) onset-rime and phonemic awareness both predict Chinese reading in grade 1; (d) phonemic awareness better predicts Chinese reading than onset-rime awareness in grade 4. The results support the notion that individual differences in alphabetic reading ability are accounted for by variances in phonological processing abilities, and that awareness of larger sound units (onset-rime) plays a more important role in earlier stage and awareness of smaller sound units (phoneme) in later stage. In contrast, the current study reported that onset-rime awareness does not play a more significant role in Chinese reading than phonemic awareness, which is inconsistent with that reported in Siok and Fletcher's (2001) study. This finding was taken to suggest that there is cross language transfer of metalinguistic skills in Hong Kong Chinese-English bilingual children. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3686349 Subjects: Reading (Elementary) - China - Hong Kong English language - Phonology Language awareness Second language acquisition School children - China - Hong Kong - Language
Download or read book Phonological Interference Between English and Chinese when Learning Mandarin written by Hsing-Yin Cynthia Lin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pinyin system, which is employed in China to teach native Chinese speakers how to read their own language, is also the most accessible and straightforward method currently used to learn Mandarin Chinese in the United States. Because Pinyin uses modified equivalent English letters to help learners to read Chinese characters, native English speakers consider it to be an efficient way of learning Mandarin. On the other hand, the Zhuyin Fuhao system, which is utilized in Taiwan, uses thirty-seven symbols to represent the pronunciation of Chinese characters. It is more difficult for other language speakers to understand, because it is another phonological method that is different from the Romanized Pinyin system. The Romanized system is more familiar to English and other Latin-based language speakers. Either way, the foreign language learners must learn a new phonological system before mastering the Chinese language. This research investigates the question of first language influence on native English speakers when they learn Chinese while they are utilizing either one of the above mentioned systems. Even though Pinyin uses Latin letters to indicate the pronunciation, its production method differs from English phonology. Therefore, an experiment was conducted to identify whether the interference of English phonological awareness affects native English speakers as they attempt to learn Mandarin Chinese language by using the Pinyin system or by using the Zhuyin Fuhao system. The participants are selected from the Chinese School of Great Kansas City. Six children formed the Pinyin group, and eight children are for the Zhuyin Fuhao group. Subjects from both groups recorded the same test content. According to the results, the Pinyin groups present English interference within their production even though the mean score of this group is slightly higher than that of the Zhuyin Fuhao group; on the other hand, the Zhuyin Fuhao groups did not show any interference in their production.
Download or read book Phonological Awareness in English Meets Phonological Awareness in Chinese written by 胡敏 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 语音意识是个体将较大音韵单元分割成较小单元并处理这些单元的能力。语音意识是多层级的技能。其中，英语语音意识包括音节意识、首音—韵脚意识和音位意识；汉语语音意识（以普通话为主）则包括以上三个层级的语音意识以及声调意识。语音意识技能对母语和二语的阅读、拼写和听力等语言技能至关重要，因此知晓语音意识和语音意识研究可以帮助二语教师在教学中引入语音意识培训，以提高学生的二语语音意识，以期最终提高其二语能力。本书通过比较英语语音意识和普通话语音意识，旨在为语音意识研究者提供理论借鉴，并为英语或汉语二语教师提供教学参考。
Download or read book Trilingual Education of Uyghur Children written by Xiaobao Wei and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Given the differences in the orthographic structure of the Uyghur, Chinese, and English languages, this study used a mixed-method approach to systematically describe and analyze the phonological awareness of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners and its contributions to their trilingual literacy acquisition and development. Focusing on the development of these learners' phonological awareness in Uyghur, Chinese and English, this study explored the influences of Uyghur and Chinese learning on the formation of their English phonological awareness and the roles of different components of phonological awareness in their trilingual literacy development. Based on the characteristics of the phonetic structure in Uyghur, Chinese, and English and the development of Uyghur children's phonological awareness in these languages, a Chinese phonetic identification training and a Uyghur-Chinese-English comprehensive phonetic training program (including intensive phoneme category contrast training and phonics training) were designed to explore whether such targeted phonetic identification training can effectively improve these children's phonological awareness in Chinese and English and thus further promote their trilingual literacy development. The title will appeal to researchers and students interested in the fields of psycholinguistics, language acquisition and multilingual education"--
Download or read book Children s Literacy Development written by Catherine McBride and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure the process of becoming literate. Taking an ecological and distinctively cross-cultural perspective, the book looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts. The book covers issues including: The importance of phonological sensitivity for learning to read and to write The first units, or building blocks, of literacy learning in different scripts such as Chinese, English, Korean Hangul, Hebrew, Hindi and Arabic The role of visual processing in reading and writing skills How the latest research can inform the teaching of reading An overview of our understanding of dyslexia, including recent neuroscientific research The developmental challenges in becoming biliterate What is special about writing for beginners and later for comprehensive writing Basics of reading comprehension Children’s Literacy Development, Second Edition is a timely and important contribution to our understanding of literacy around the world. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is the only book available that provides an overview of how children learn to read and write in different languages, and will be essential reading for all students of Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Speech Therapy.
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 The Effect of Phonological Awareness on Learning English as a Second Language written by Man-Ching Vanessa Wong 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, "The Effect of Phonological Awareness on Learning English as a Second Language: a Study With Korean and Chinese Subjects" by Man-ching, Vanessa, Wong, 黃玟靜, 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 dissertation entitled "The Effect of Phonological Awareness on Learning English as a Second Language: A Study with Korean and Chinese Subjects." Submitted by Wong Man Ching Vanessa for the degree of Master of Arts at The University of Hong Kong in June 2006 The effect of phonological awareness on learning English as a second language from Korean and Chinese was investigated in this study. Three Korean-English bilingual children and three Chinese children whose first language (L1) is Cantonese were tested in second-language (L2; English) phonological skills focusing on phonological processing. It is found that phonological skills in L1 and L2 were strongly correlated, and phonological skill in both LI and L2 was correlated with L2 reading and contributed a unique variance to L2 reading, even though the children's LI was not written in an alphabetic orthography, whereas the 2nd language had an alphabetic orthography. This research adds to a growing body of evidence for cross-language transfer of phonological processing in L2 learning of English-as-a-Second-Language students. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3871083 Subjects: English language - Phonology English language - Study and teaching - Korean speakers English language - Study and teaching - Cantonese speakers
Download or read book Pinyin and Chinese Children s Phonological Awareness written by Xintian Du and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biliteracy Development in Chinese and English written by Yang Luo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacy Acquisition written by R. Malatesha Joshi and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
