This book focusses on the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language (CSL) in contemporary Taiwan. It explores linguistic, social, and pedagogical perspectives and offers unique insights into Taiwans diverse language landscape, from inte...Daugiau...
Written for NNES students, researchers and practitioners in higher education, including language professionals and other specialists in language teaching, this compelling text will also interest general readers of academic and linguistic literacy....Daugiau...
This book focuses on the learning of Pinyin and Hanzi among learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) from Egypt and the UK. The objective is to explore the roles of L1 writing system background, individual differences and metalinguistic awaren...Daugiau...
Set within the context of teaching and learning Chinese at an inner-city secondary school in the North of England and adopting a case study research design, this book aims to develop research-informed insights into the nature of the pronunciation ch...Daugiau...
This book encourages further conversation on the expanding circle in World Englishes, offering a detailed look at China English through the academic writing of Chinese students at a British university. It will be of interest to students and scholars...Daugiau...
This book presents an empirical study that develops and validates a learning-oriented self-assessment instrument for assessing the strategic competence (SC) of young language learners in oral communication, specifically within the context of early E...Daugiau...
Employing a mixed-method approach, the book investigates the psychology of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in the online teaching environment in China during the COVID-19 pandemic....Daugiau...
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 lear...Daugiau...
Drawing on autoethnographic research on literacy autobiographies from a Chinese EFL writing context, this book provides unique insights into literacy, voice, translingualism, and critical pedagogy from a Global South perspective....Daugiau...
The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese is among the first to try to incorporate both advanced linguistic and acquisition perspectives to show how eight sentence-final particles are represented in English-speaking learners L2 Chinese....Daugiau...
Advanced Modern Chinese: Learning through Contemporary Film aims to develop Chinese advanced level students language skills through movies, broaden their knowledge about China, as well as develop their appreciation of the artistic characteristics of...Daugiau...
Interaction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca: Context, Practice, and Perception proposes a model of context, practice, and perception...Daugiau...
Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from teachers and students in Hong Kongs secondary schools, this book examines critical questions on language learning motivation and instructional contexts. A useful resource for resesarchers in the fiel...Daugiau...
Li presents a nuanced look at the relationship between language learning styles and culture to illuminate how these important constructs are understood, employed, and play out in the world. Through the lens of different learning style dimensions Li...Daugiau...
From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on three linguistic aspects of L2 writing development: vocabulary, syntax, and discourse....Daugiau...
In the last three decades, the global spread of English has continued despite constant political and cultural conflicts. While more and more youngsters around the world acquire English, their linguistic repertoire, differences and deviations in fund...Daugiau...
This book provides a new and up-to-date perspective on the teaching and learning of Chinese ESL/EFL learners. It collects fifteen case studies to explore patterns, features, developments, causes and effects of a variety of issues in the ESL/EFL teac...Daugiau...
