This study investigated whether Chinese children can use partial information from phonetic components to learn pronunciations of unfamiliar compound characters. The study presented 49 2nd graders and 56 4th graders whose home language was Mandarin, and 75 2nd graders and 93 4th graders whose home language was Cantonese, with characters of four types: regular characters containing full pronunciation information; tone-different characters containing partial tone information; onset-different characters containing partial onset information; and irregular characters containing no information. Children learned more regular and partial-information characters than irregular characters, and Mandarin speakers learned more than Cantonese speakers.
Properties of school chinese,implications for learning to read 4yuxuan liu
This document analyzes the properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters taught in elementary schools in China, including their visual complexity, phonetic regularity, semantic transparency, and other features. Some key findings are that characters introduced in earlier grades tend to have fewer strokes and be less phonetically regular or semantically transparent than those in later grades. Low-frequency characters also tend to be more complex, regular, and transparent than high-frequency characters. The analysis suggests the writing system has an internal logic that can help children learn characters if they understand this logic.
Using meaningful interpretation and chunking to enhance memory the case of ch...yuxuan liu
This study examined whether a method called meaningful interpretation and chunking (MIC) could improve students' learning and retention of Chinese characters. Students were randomized into a treatment group, who learned characters using MIC, and a control group, who learned through rote repetition of stroke order. The treatment group showed better immediate learning and retention of characters. The teacher-cued method and familiar independent work were more effective than teacher-instructed and unfamiliar work. The treatment effect varied across measurement components, instruction levels, and heritage versus non-heritage groups.
1. The study aimed to identify the effect of domestic violence on speech and pronunciation disorders in children in basic education in Ajloun governorate, Jordan.
2. The study found that parents used neglect and emotional violence against their children. Parents also punished children for using inappropriate words.
3. The study revealed significant differences in domestic violence between males and females, favoring males. Differences were also found based on birth order, favoring first born for emotional violence.
This document discusses improving the word accuracy of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for the Telugu language. It analyzes the substitution errors in the system using two different lexical models - one based on stress-timed English phonemes (CMU lexicon) and one handcrafted lexicon for syllable-timed Telugu (UOH lexicon). The UOH lexicon improves word accuracy by 20-30% compared to the CMU lexicon by better modeling the phonetic characteristics of Telugu. The paper also examines the effect of gender, accents, and non-native speakers on substitution errors and the resulting confusion matrices provide insight into the most commonly substituted phonemes.
Relationship between Creativity and Tolerance of Ambiguity to Understand Metaphorical Polysemy: A Pilot Study
Maha Ounis,
University of Sfax, Tunisia
The Sixth International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature
9-10 October 2021 , Ahwaz
For more information, please visit the conference website:
WWW.LLLD.IR
As the topic suggests, the research paper presents Study of Consonant Pronunciations Errors Committed by EFL Learners. Error analysis always tries to resolve language learners’ problems in acquiring second or foreign language setting. Learning to English pronunciation is perhaps as important as learning listening skill, speaking, and spelling. Errors in English pronunciation create several problems for English language learners in their works. In other words, most of the English language errors of pronunciation are due to the lack of knowledge of language learners. However, all the students in our sample are of age group (16-25) at Bushehr language institute and they are all Iranian nationals. In addition, all of them were female learners. An English pronunciation (consonant) test was used to get information about the knowledge of the learners in English pronunciation. Findings of this article indicated that the first and second hypotheses of this article were accepted, but the third hypothesis was rejected. However, the findings of this paper showed that the Iranian EFL students have problem to pronounce English sounds correctly.
The document discusses the Grammar Translation Method, a traditional approach for teaching Latin and ancient Greek. The goal was to develop logical thinking, intellectual abilities, and the ability to read original texts through translating sentences and analyzing grammar rules. While originally used for "dead" languages, it was later applied to modern foreign language teaching. Key features included teaching in the native language with little active use of the target language, focusing on memorizing vocabulary lists and grammar rules, translating texts, and giving little attention to pronunciation or communication. Some advantages were that it required few teacher skills and tests were easily scored, but disadvantages were that it could be boring and not develop communicative skills. The method is still sometimes used due to standardized tests not assessing communication and
Properties of school chinese,implications for learning to read 4yuxuan liu
This document analyzes the properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters taught in elementary schools in China, including their visual complexity, phonetic regularity, semantic transparency, and other features. Some key findings are that characters introduced in earlier grades tend to have fewer strokes and be less phonetically regular or semantically transparent than those in later grades. Low-frequency characters also tend to be more complex, regular, and transparent than high-frequency characters. The analysis suggests the writing system has an internal logic that can help children learn characters if they understand this logic.
Using meaningful interpretation and chunking to enhance memory the case of ch...yuxuan liu
This study examined whether a method called meaningful interpretation and chunking (MIC) could improve students' learning and retention of Chinese characters. Students were randomized into a treatment group, who learned characters using MIC, and a control group, who learned through rote repetition of stroke order. The treatment group showed better immediate learning and retention of characters. The teacher-cued method and familiar independent work were more effective than teacher-instructed and unfamiliar work. The treatment effect varied across measurement components, instruction levels, and heritage versus non-heritage groups.
1. The study aimed to identify the effect of domestic violence on speech and pronunciation disorders in children in basic education in Ajloun governorate, Jordan.
2. The study found that parents used neglect and emotional violence against their children. Parents also punished children for using inappropriate words.
3. The study revealed significant differences in domestic violence between males and females, favoring males. Differences were also found based on birth order, favoring first born for emotional violence.
This document discusses improving the word accuracy of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for the Telugu language. It analyzes the substitution errors in the system using two different lexical models - one based on stress-timed English phonemes (CMU lexicon) and one handcrafted lexicon for syllable-timed Telugu (UOH lexicon). The UOH lexicon improves word accuracy by 20-30% compared to the CMU lexicon by better modeling the phonetic characteristics of Telugu. The paper also examines the effect of gender, accents, and non-native speakers on substitution errors and the resulting confusion matrices provide insight into the most commonly substituted phonemes.
Relationship between Creativity and Tolerance of Ambiguity to Understand Metaphorical Polysemy: A Pilot Study
Maha Ounis,
University of Sfax, Tunisia
The Sixth International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature
9-10 October 2021 , Ahwaz
For more information, please visit the conference website:
WWW.LLLD.IR
As the topic suggests, the research paper presents Study of Consonant Pronunciations Errors Committed by EFL Learners. Error analysis always tries to resolve language learners’ problems in acquiring second or foreign language setting. Learning to English pronunciation is perhaps as important as learning listening skill, speaking, and spelling. Errors in English pronunciation create several problems for English language learners in their works. In other words, most of the English language errors of pronunciation are due to the lack of knowledge of language learners. However, all the students in our sample are of age group (16-25) at Bushehr language institute and they are all Iranian nationals. In addition, all of them were female learners. An English pronunciation (consonant) test was used to get information about the knowledge of the learners in English pronunciation. Findings of this article indicated that the first and second hypotheses of this article were accepted, but the third hypothesis was rejected. However, the findings of this paper showed that the Iranian EFL students have problem to pronounce English sounds correctly.
The document discusses the Grammar Translation Method, a traditional approach for teaching Latin and ancient Greek. The goal was to develop logical thinking, intellectual abilities, and the ability to read original texts through translating sentences and analyzing grammar rules. While originally used for "dead" languages, it was later applied to modern foreign language teaching. Key features included teaching in the native language with little active use of the target language, focusing on memorizing vocabulary lists and grammar rules, translating texts, and giving little attention to pronunciation or communication. Some advantages were that it required few teacher skills and tests were easily scored, but disadvantages were that it could be boring and not develop communicative skills. The method is still sometimes used due to standardized tests not assessing communication and
This document summarizes a research article that analyzes lexical bundles in research article abstracts written by Iranian authors in applied linguistics and compares them to abstracts written by native English speakers. The study examines the frequency and functions of 4-word lexical bundles. It finds that Iranian authors use more 4-word bundles and that these bundles include more clausal elements and subordination, while native speaker bundles are more phrasal. The study aims to inform academic writing instructors and help non-native English speakers improve their research writing skills.
The five main components of language are phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, syntax, and context. Along with grammar, semantics, and pragmatics, these components work together to create meaningful communication among individuals.
Two main theories exist to try and explain the differences in male and female...SamerYaqoob
1. The document analyzes gender differences in language use as shown in the TV program "Mind Your Language" season 3. It finds differences between men and women in areas like pronunciation, intonation, grammar, vocabulary choice, and topic choice.
2. Women tend to have better pronunciation and use more standard grammar, while men are more relaxed in their language use. Women also prefer softer language and topics involving emotions, while men prefer assertive language and topics like sports and politics.
3. Examples from conversations on the show demonstrate these differences, like a woman defending her answer with high intonation and a man giving a response without proper grammar. Topic choices also reflected traditional gender associations.
Present article examines the psycholinguistic factors that affect ease of learning foreign language vocabulary acquisition. Demonstrate the orthographic and phonological patterns of vocabulary acquisition. by Egamberdieva Shakhzoda Damirovna, Egamberdieva Farida Oktamovna, Egamberdiev Khumoyun and Ergasheva Yulduz 2020. Psycholinguistic conditions in vocabulary acquisition. International Journal on Integrated Education. 2, 3 (Mar. 2020), 23-25. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31149/ijie.v2i3.251. https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJIE/article/view/251/244 https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJIE/article/view/251
This document discusses differences and similarities between reading in a first language (L1) versus a second language (L2). It examines how cultural factors like background knowledge, text structure familiarity, and language familiarity can influence the reading process. The document reviews research showing that readers comprehend and recall texts better when they are familiar with the content, language, and format. While L1 and L2 reading share basic elements, cultural and linguistic differences can make L2 reading more difficult due to unfamiliar schemas.
Investigating the Integration of Culture Teaching in Foreign Language Classroom: A Case Study
Dr. Samah Benzerroug (Department of English) & Dr. Souhila Benzerroug (Department of French),
Teacher Training College of Bouzareah, Algiers, Algeria
Many scholars argue that language and culture are closely related to each other and hence the teaching of a foreign language cannot take place without the teaching of its corresponding culture which helps promoting language learning and enhancing learners’ motivation and performance (Corbett, J. (2003); (1996); Hinkel, E. (1999); Kramsch, C. (2006)). This being the case, the present study aims at putting emphasis on the importance and significance of integrating culture teaching in foreign language classroom in the Algerian school. It seeks to investigate whether foreign language teachers grant significant value and interest to the foreign language culture. Therefore, a descriptive analysis of the English and French textbooks of the secondary education was carried out to identify and examine the way the cultural dimensions are being dealt with. In addition, a survey was conducted by addressing a questionnaire to a number of secondary school teachers of English and French to investigate to what extent they consider culture teaching in their classroom. The research results revealed that despite the fact that there is a move towards fostering culture teaching, the textbooks still offer few tasks that deal with cultural aspects and teachers are still unfamiliar with the techniques to promote it in the classroom, thus they neglect culture teaching and prefer to focus on other aspects in the class like accuracy, fluency and language skills development. In light of these findings, a number of considerable implications and recommendation are presented to foreign language teachers and language policy decision-makers to stress the importance of integrating culture teaching and adequately implement it in the classroom.
Keywords: Foreign Language, Culture, Teaching, Integrating, Classroom
The Sixth International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature
9-10 October 2021 , Ahwaz
For more information, please visit the conference website:
WWW.LLLD.IR
This study aims to establish the phonology of Bareilly Urdu. Bareilly is a city of Uttar Pradesh state in
northern India and the capital of Rohilkhand region. The name Bareilly Urdu is given to the regional
language of Bareilly and adjacent villages.The data for the present study was collected through field work
in the old city area of Bareilly district. The task of collecting and collating the data was started by
preparing a wordlist of monosyllabic words appearing in ‘A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and
English’ by John T. Platts. Then, we moved to the target field for finding the equivalents of these
monosyllabic words in the target language community. After analyzing the data, we have established a
total of 60 phonemes. Out of which 36 are consonantal phonemes and 24 are vocalic phonemes (including
vowels and diphthongs).
The document discusses the field of linguistics and what it involves. It states that linguistics is not the same as the study of language history, learning multiple languages, literary criticism, or traditional grammar studies. Linguistics involves the scientific study of language structure and includes subfields like phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It concludes that a degree in linguistics can open up career opportunities in fields like education, publishing, media, social services, and language-related research.
This document contains answers to 4 questions about language studies. In the first question, the definition of language is discussed and each element is explained. The second question talks about how linguistics relates to other fields like psychology, sociology, philosophy, and computer science. The third question discusses the innate human capacity for language learning. The last question examines how literature can be used for language teaching by improving cultural knowledge, grammar/vocabulary, and critical thinking skills.
This document discusses the phonological processing abilities necessary for reading and spelling in an alphabetic language like English. It identifies three key phonological processing abilities: phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming. Deficits in these abilities can cause reading disabilities. Phonological awareness involves recognizing and manipulating sounds and is the most instructionally responsive. Tests are recommended to assess students' phonics skills, blending ability, and underlying phonological processing to address weaknesses.
The present study was an attempt to see if there is a relationship between the Emotional Intelligence of the teachers and their attitudes toward Code Switching in Iranian EFL classes. Why some teachers use code switching in an EFL class and some others ignore it, is so challenging at the face of any foreign language class. The population in this study comprised of 140 individuals. To determine the sample size of EFL teachers, total numbering and simple random sampling method were used respectively resulting in the selection of 80 English teachers including 40 female and 40 male teachers. The mother tongue of the participants was Turkish/Persian ranging between the ages of 20 and 30.To collect the required data, first, two types of standard questionnaires were given to the participants; one of the questionnaires encompassing questions about code switching and the other one about the emotional intelligence. The reliability of both questionnaires was already established. According to the obtained results by means of SPSS software, it was shown that there was not any correlation between teachers’ emotional intelligence and code-switching and the educational outcome of EFL students in Iranian context. The results of the present study will pave the way for more accurate EFL classroom conduct and also other factors of the related issues in question could be considered by some other researchers.
Role of Speech Therapy in Overcoming Lexical Deficit in Adult Broca’s Aphasia
Tanzeela Abid & Dr. Habibullah Pathan,
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
The Sixth International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature
9-10 October 2021 , Ahwaz
For more information, please visit the conference website:
WWW.LLLD.IR
This document provides an introduction and outline for a course on Second Language Acquisition. The course aims to introduce students to major concepts and theories of SLA. The introduction defines SLA and outlines some functions that a second language can serve. The core issues section discusses learner factors like prior L1 knowledge, cognitive maturity, and affective factors. It also addresses the role of metalinguistic awareness and corrective feedback. The outline lists topics to be covered in Unit 1, including brief definitions of key terms related to SLA research.
Grammar can be defined as the systematic study and description of language. It involves the study of syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. Noam Chomsky was one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century who was interested in grammaticality and how humans use a finite set of structures and rules to produce an infinite number of grammatically correct sentences. According to Chomsky, humans are born with an innate language acquisition device and universal grammar that helps children learn the rules of their native language.
The document describes the grammar-translation method of foreign language teaching. Some key points:
- It was the dominant method from the 1840s-1940s and is still used today in some classrooms. The goal is to learn a language through analyzing its grammar rules and translating sentences.
- Lessons are organized around grammar points, which are explained, illustrated, and practiced through translation exercises. Accuracy is emphasized over fluency.
- Typical classroom activities include reading passages aloud and translating them, vocabulary exercises, grammar explanations and exercises, and writing compositions applying the target language.
- The students' native language is used for instruction. Reading and writing are prioritized, with little focus on speaking skills. The
A Contrastive Analysis of Urdu and English deixis.Afzi Jutt
This document provides an overview of deixis, or referring expressions, in Urdu and English through a contrastive analysis. It begins with definitions of deixis and an introduction to how deixis works in different languages. It then discusses the need to analyze and compare deixis in Urdu and English. The bulk of the document outlines the theoretical background of deixis in both languages, categorizing deixis into personal, spatial, temporal, social, and discourse deixis. For each category, it provides examples from both Urdu and English. The document concludes by defining contrastive analysis as the systematic study of comparing two languages to identify their structural differences and similarities.
This document provides an overview of effective intervention instruction for reading. It discusses the key components of a strong reading program, including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. It describes the three tiers of Response to Intervention (RTI): Tier 1 involves core classroom instruction, Tier 2 includes supplemental instruction for students needing moderate support, and Tier 3 consists of intensive individualized intervention. Specific strategies are suggested for each reading element at the Tier 1 and Tier 2 levels, such as word walls, repeated reading, and word sorting activities. The document emphasizes that a multi-tiered system is needed to meet the diverse needs of all students.
This document discusses the benefits of PMP certification for individuals and organizations. PMP certification demonstrates knowledge of project management methodology and best practices, increasing confidence for clients. It also helps organizations by ensuring the workforce understands methodology and values teamwork. The document congratulates individuals who completed training to facilitate PMP certification, wishing them the best on the final exam. It also congratulates others who earned Scrum Master and digital marketing certifications.
This document discusses Nathan Cyr, a 12-year-old boy whose hobby is making mechanical things and has a magazine called "super car" for guys. It also briefly mentions Vin Diesel's birthdate and location, technical details about a 1963 Corvette's engine, and the car from The Dukes of Hazzard TV show from 1969.
This document summarizes a research article that analyzes lexical bundles in research article abstracts written by Iranian authors in applied linguistics and compares them to abstracts written by native English speakers. The study examines the frequency and functions of 4-word lexical bundles. It finds that Iranian authors use more 4-word bundles and that these bundles include more clausal elements and subordination, while native speaker bundles are more phrasal. The study aims to inform academic writing instructors and help non-native English speakers improve their research writing skills.
The five main components of language are phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, syntax, and context. Along with grammar, semantics, and pragmatics, these components work together to create meaningful communication among individuals.
Two main theories exist to try and explain the differences in male and female...SamerYaqoob
1. The document analyzes gender differences in language use as shown in the TV program "Mind Your Language" season 3. It finds differences between men and women in areas like pronunciation, intonation, grammar, vocabulary choice, and topic choice.
2. Women tend to have better pronunciation and use more standard grammar, while men are more relaxed in their language use. Women also prefer softer language and topics involving emotions, while men prefer assertive language and topics like sports and politics.
3. Examples from conversations on the show demonstrate these differences, like a woman defending her answer with high intonation and a man giving a response without proper grammar. Topic choices also reflected traditional gender associations.
Present article examines the psycholinguistic factors that affect ease of learning foreign language vocabulary acquisition. Demonstrate the orthographic and phonological patterns of vocabulary acquisition. by Egamberdieva Shakhzoda Damirovna, Egamberdieva Farida Oktamovna, Egamberdiev Khumoyun and Ergasheva Yulduz 2020. Psycholinguistic conditions in vocabulary acquisition. International Journal on Integrated Education. 2, 3 (Mar. 2020), 23-25. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31149/ijie.v2i3.251. https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJIE/article/view/251/244 https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJIE/article/view/251
This document discusses differences and similarities between reading in a first language (L1) versus a second language (L2). It examines how cultural factors like background knowledge, text structure familiarity, and language familiarity can influence the reading process. The document reviews research showing that readers comprehend and recall texts better when they are familiar with the content, language, and format. While L1 and L2 reading share basic elements, cultural and linguistic differences can make L2 reading more difficult due to unfamiliar schemas.
Investigating the Integration of Culture Teaching in Foreign Language Classroom: A Case Study
Dr. Samah Benzerroug (Department of English) & Dr. Souhila Benzerroug (Department of French),
Teacher Training College of Bouzareah, Algiers, Algeria
Many scholars argue that language and culture are closely related to each other and hence the teaching of a foreign language cannot take place without the teaching of its corresponding culture which helps promoting language learning and enhancing learners’ motivation and performance (Corbett, J. (2003); (1996); Hinkel, E. (1999); Kramsch, C. (2006)). This being the case, the present study aims at putting emphasis on the importance and significance of integrating culture teaching in foreign language classroom in the Algerian school. It seeks to investigate whether foreign language teachers grant significant value and interest to the foreign language culture. Therefore, a descriptive analysis of the English and French textbooks of the secondary education was carried out to identify and examine the way the cultural dimensions are being dealt with. In addition, a survey was conducted by addressing a questionnaire to a number of secondary school teachers of English and French to investigate to what extent they consider culture teaching in their classroom. The research results revealed that despite the fact that there is a move towards fostering culture teaching, the textbooks still offer few tasks that deal with cultural aspects and teachers are still unfamiliar with the techniques to promote it in the classroom, thus they neglect culture teaching and prefer to focus on other aspects in the class like accuracy, fluency and language skills development. In light of these findings, a number of considerable implications and recommendation are presented to foreign language teachers and language policy decision-makers to stress the importance of integrating culture teaching and adequately implement it in the classroom.
Keywords: Foreign Language, Culture, Teaching, Integrating, Classroom
The Sixth International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature
9-10 October 2021 , Ahwaz
For more information, please visit the conference website:
WWW.LLLD.IR
This study aims to establish the phonology of Bareilly Urdu. Bareilly is a city of Uttar Pradesh state in
northern India and the capital of Rohilkhand region. The name Bareilly Urdu is given to the regional
language of Bareilly and adjacent villages.The data for the present study was collected through field work
in the old city area of Bareilly district. The task of collecting and collating the data was started by
preparing a wordlist of monosyllabic words appearing in ‘A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and
English’ by John T. Platts. Then, we moved to the target field for finding the equivalents of these
monosyllabic words in the target language community. After analyzing the data, we have established a
total of 60 phonemes. Out of which 36 are consonantal phonemes and 24 are vocalic phonemes (including
vowels and diphthongs).
The document discusses the field of linguistics and what it involves. It states that linguistics is not the same as the study of language history, learning multiple languages, literary criticism, or traditional grammar studies. Linguistics involves the scientific study of language structure and includes subfields like phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It concludes that a degree in linguistics can open up career opportunities in fields like education, publishing, media, social services, and language-related research.
This document contains answers to 4 questions about language studies. In the first question, the definition of language is discussed and each element is explained. The second question talks about how linguistics relates to other fields like psychology, sociology, philosophy, and computer science. The third question discusses the innate human capacity for language learning. The last question examines how literature can be used for language teaching by improving cultural knowledge, grammar/vocabulary, and critical thinking skills.
This document discusses the phonological processing abilities necessary for reading and spelling in an alphabetic language like English. It identifies three key phonological processing abilities: phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming. Deficits in these abilities can cause reading disabilities. Phonological awareness involves recognizing and manipulating sounds and is the most instructionally responsive. Tests are recommended to assess students' phonics skills, blending ability, and underlying phonological processing to address weaknesses.
The present study was an attempt to see if there is a relationship between the Emotional Intelligence of the teachers and their attitudes toward Code Switching in Iranian EFL classes. Why some teachers use code switching in an EFL class and some others ignore it, is so challenging at the face of any foreign language class. The population in this study comprised of 140 individuals. To determine the sample size of EFL teachers, total numbering and simple random sampling method were used respectively resulting in the selection of 80 English teachers including 40 female and 40 male teachers. The mother tongue of the participants was Turkish/Persian ranging between the ages of 20 and 30.To collect the required data, first, two types of standard questionnaires were given to the participants; one of the questionnaires encompassing questions about code switching and the other one about the emotional intelligence. The reliability of both questionnaires was already established. According to the obtained results by means of SPSS software, it was shown that there was not any correlation between teachers’ emotional intelligence and code-switching and the educational outcome of EFL students in Iranian context. The results of the present study will pave the way for more accurate EFL classroom conduct and also other factors of the related issues in question could be considered by some other researchers.
Role of Speech Therapy in Overcoming Lexical Deficit in Adult Broca’s Aphasia
Tanzeela Abid & Dr. Habibullah Pathan,
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
The Sixth International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature
9-10 October 2021 , Ahwaz
For more information, please visit the conference website:
WWW.LLLD.IR
This document provides an introduction and outline for a course on Second Language Acquisition. The course aims to introduce students to major concepts and theories of SLA. The introduction defines SLA and outlines some functions that a second language can serve. The core issues section discusses learner factors like prior L1 knowledge, cognitive maturity, and affective factors. It also addresses the role of metalinguistic awareness and corrective feedback. The outline lists topics to be covered in Unit 1, including brief definitions of key terms related to SLA research.
Grammar can be defined as the systematic study and description of language. It involves the study of syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. Noam Chomsky was one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century who was interested in grammaticality and how humans use a finite set of structures and rules to produce an infinite number of grammatically correct sentences. According to Chomsky, humans are born with an innate language acquisition device and universal grammar that helps children learn the rules of their native language.
The document describes the grammar-translation method of foreign language teaching. Some key points:
- It was the dominant method from the 1840s-1940s and is still used today in some classrooms. The goal is to learn a language through analyzing its grammar rules and translating sentences.
- Lessons are organized around grammar points, which are explained, illustrated, and practiced through translation exercises. Accuracy is emphasized over fluency.
- Typical classroom activities include reading passages aloud and translating them, vocabulary exercises, grammar explanations and exercises, and writing compositions applying the target language.
- The students' native language is used for instruction. Reading and writing are prioritized, with little focus on speaking skills. The
A Contrastive Analysis of Urdu and English deixis.Afzi Jutt
This document provides an overview of deixis, or referring expressions, in Urdu and English through a contrastive analysis. It begins with definitions of deixis and an introduction to how deixis works in different languages. It then discusses the need to analyze and compare deixis in Urdu and English. The bulk of the document outlines the theoretical background of deixis in both languages, categorizing deixis into personal, spatial, temporal, social, and discourse deixis. For each category, it provides examples from both Urdu and English. The document concludes by defining contrastive analysis as the systematic study of comparing two languages to identify their structural differences and similarities.
This document provides an overview of effective intervention instruction for reading. It discusses the key components of a strong reading program, including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. It describes the three tiers of Response to Intervention (RTI): Tier 1 involves core classroom instruction, Tier 2 includes supplemental instruction for students needing moderate support, and Tier 3 consists of intensive individualized intervention. Specific strategies are suggested for each reading element at the Tier 1 and Tier 2 levels, such as word walls, repeated reading, and word sorting activities. The document emphasizes that a multi-tiered system is needed to meet the diverse needs of all students.
This document discusses the benefits of PMP certification for individuals and organizations. PMP certification demonstrates knowledge of project management methodology and best practices, increasing confidence for clients. It also helps organizations by ensuring the workforce understands methodology and values teamwork. The document congratulates individuals who completed training to facilitate PMP certification, wishing them the best on the final exam. It also congratulates others who earned Scrum Master and digital marketing certifications.
This document discusses Nathan Cyr, a 12-year-old boy whose hobby is making mechanical things and has a magazine called "super car" for guys. It also briefly mentions Vin Diesel's birthdate and location, technical details about a 1963 Corvette's engine, and the car from The Dukes of Hazzard TV show from 1969.
This document contains an assessment for a Year 10 Chinese language class. It includes four sections - listening and responding, reading and responding, writing, and speaking.
The listening and responding section contains sentences to listen to and questions to answer in English. The reading and responding section contains a short story passage and comprehension questions to answer in English.
The writing section asks students to choose between writing a telephone dialogue inviting a friend to a leisure activity, or writing an invitation email with similar details.
The speaking section provides prompts for students to work in pairs, create a scenario, and have a 3-5 minute conversation using vocabulary and sentences learned in chapters 3 and 4, including discussing weekend plans, locations, transportation, feelings
Role of radical awareness in the character and word acquisition of chinese ch...yuxuan liu
The document discusses research on the role of morphological awareness in Chinese children's character and word acquisition. It describes two experiments conducted with 292 Chinese children in grades 1, 3, and 5. The first experiment showed that 3rd and 5th graders could select characters containing the correct radicals even for unfamiliar whole words, indicating awareness of the relationship between radicals and character meaning. The second experiment found children were better able to use radicals to derive new character meanings when the radicals were familiar and the conceptual difficulty was low. Children rated as good readers by teachers showed more radical awareness than poor readers.
The document is about the Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis and their song "What Does the Fox Say?". Ylvis is a comedy duo formed in 2000 consisting of brothers Bård and Vegard Ylvisaker. The song speaks of animals in a fun way. The author loves animals and includes a link to the music video for the song on YouTube.
Year 10 Chinese language non-background marking rubricyuxuan liu
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Use of partial information in learning to read chinese characters 3
1. Journal of Educational Psychology Copyright 2003 by the American Psychological Association, Inc.
2003, Vol. 95, No. 1, 52–57 0022-0663/03/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.95.1.52
Use of Partial Information in Learning to Read Chinese Characters
Richard C. Anderson, Wenling Li, and Yu-Min Ku
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Hua Shu and Ningning Wu
Beijing Normal University
This study investigated whether children can use partial information to learn the pronunciations of
Chinese characters. Participants were 49 2nd graders and 56 4th graders whose home language was
Mandarin and 75 2nd graders and 93 4th graders whose home language was Cantonese. Children had 2
trials to learn the Mandarin pronunciations of 28 unfamiliar compound characters of 4 types. Children
learned to pronounce more regular characters, which contain full information about pronunciation, and
more tone-different and onset-different characters, which contain partial information about pronuncia-tion,
than characters with unknown phonetic components, which contain no information about pronun-ciation.
Mandarin-speaking children learned more pronunciations than Cantonese-speaking children.
Every writing system connects with spoken language in some
way. But unfortunately for Chinese children trying to learn to read,
the connections in Chinese are indirect, complicated, and notori-ously
unreliable. The pronunciation of about 28% of the 2,570
characters in school Chinese is entirely arbitrary (Shu, Chen,
Anderson, Wu, & Xuan, 2002). Characters with arbitrary pronun-ciations
include all of the many simple characters children are
supposed to learn in elementary school as well as a small number
of semantic compound characters that contain information about
meaning but not pronunciation. The remaining 72% of characters
in school Chinese are semantic–phonetic compounds (sometimes
called ideophonetic compounds or, simply, phonetic compounds).
Semantic–phonetic compound characters contain a semantic com-ponent
that gives a clue to meaning and a phonetic component that
may give a clue to pronunciation. The problem is that the clues to
pronunciation in phonetic components are not very trustworthy.
Only 23% of the compound characters prescribed to be taught
during the six grades of elementary school by the Chinese Ministry
of Education are perfectly regular in the sense that the whole
compound has exactly the pronunciation expected on the basis of
its phonetic component (Shu et al., 2002). However, a large
additional group of compound characters in school Chinese con-tain
a phonetic component that provides partial information about
the pronunciation of the whole compound. This article reports an
empirical investigation of whether Chinese children can use partial
information of two different kinds to learn and remember the
pronunciations of unfamiliar compound characters.
A notable feature of modern standard Chinese, or Mandarin, is
that it contains only about 400 syllables. When further differenti-ated
according to one of four tones or voice inflections— high,
rising, low then rising, or falling—there are about 1,200 distinct
“tone syllables” (Taylor, 2001). A Mandarin syllable consists of an
optional initial consonant (traditionally called the initial; we will
use the term onset) followed by a final element (called the final or
rime), consisting of an obligatory nuclear vowel and one or more
optional vowels and an optional consonant. Mandarin syllables can
be described in terms of three phonological elements: onset, rime,
and tone. All of the valid syllables of Mandarin can be defined in
terms of the four tones and just 21 onsets and 36 rimes.
A major class of characters that provides partial information
about pronunciation can be called tone-different because each
character in the class is pronounced with the same onset and rime
(and thus the same syllable) but a different tone from its phonetic
component. For example, the character is pronounced /qı˘ng/,
whereas its phonetic is pronounced /qıng/.1 About 16% of the
semantic–phonetic compound characters in school Chinese are
tone different (Shu et al., 2002).
Tone-different characters are usually classified as regular (e.g.,
Tzeng, Zhang, Hung, Lee, 1995). Presumably this classification
reflects the intuition of adult readers of Chinese that they can
easily make use of the information about onset and rime in the
phonetic of tone-different characters. However, we are aware of
just one previous study that examined whether children can use the
partial information about pronunciation potentially available in
tone-different characters. Ho and Bryant (1997) presented familiar
semantic–phonetic compound characters to Hong Kong first and
second graders. They found that completely regular compound
characters (same onset, rime, and tone as the phonetic) were read
significantly better than tone-different characters, which in turn
were read significantly better than irregular characters (different
onset, rime, and tone). Pronunciation of tone-different characters
1 Pronunciations are enclosed in back slashes. The diacritical marks
represent tones, for example, /ma/, /ma´/, /ma˘/, and /ma`/ for the first through
fourth tones, respectively.
Richard C. Anderson, Wenling Li, and Yu-Min Ku, Center for the Study
of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Hua Shu and
Ningning Wu, Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University,
Beijing, China.
We are pleased to acknowledge that the research described herein was
supported by the Spencer Foundation. We wish to thank Xi Chen for her
contributions to the research and Aydin Durgunoglu for her comments on
a draft of this article.
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Richard
C. Anderson, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign, 174 Children’s Research Center, 51 Gerty Drive,
Champaign, Illinois 61820. E-mail: csrrca@uiuc.edu
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2. PARTIAL INFORMATION IN LEARNING CHINESE CHARACTERS 53
was conditioned by frequency. Among high-frequency characters,
tone-different characters were read as well as regular characters,
whereas among low-frequency characters, tone-different charac-ters
were read no better than irregular characters. From this Ho and
Bryant concluded, “Only from repeated exposure to [tone-different]
characters were . . . [children] able to associate the sound
of the phonetic component with that of the characters as a whole”
(p. 283).
Another large class of compound characters that provides partial
information about pronunciation can be called onset different.
These are characters pronounced with a different onset but the
same rime as the phonetic component. For instance, is pro-nounced
/jıng/, whereas its phonetic is pronounced /qıng/. Shu
et al. (2002) calculated that 20% of the semantic–phonetic com-pound
characters in school Chinese are onset different.2 There is
no previous research with either adults or children that addresses
whether readers are able to use the information about rime con-tained
in onset-different characters.
Tone-different and onset-different characters together account
for 36% of the semantic–phonetic compounds in school Chinese
(Shu et al., 2002). Thus, the ability to use partial information about
pronunciation would be extremely useful to young readers. This
article reports an empirical investigation of whether they are able
to do so.
The theoretical notion that guides this research is that learning to
read entails understanding the principles that govern the relation-ships
between speech and writing. In English, the overarching
principle is that letters represent segmental phonemes in spoken
English (Liberman, Shankweiler, Liberman, 1989; Treiman,
2000). The alphabetic principle motivates and rationalizes the
assimilation of specific letter–sound associations for the young
reader. However, to become skilled readers of English, children
have to acquire a more sophisticated understanding of
orthography–phonology relationships as they learn to cope with
variability in the pronunciation of letters and letter clusters (Gos-wami,
2000).
In Chinese, the overarching graphophonological insight might
be called the phonetic principle (in Shu, Anderson, Wu, 2000,
we used the term phonetic awareness). The phonetic principle is
simply that the phonetic components of compound characters
represent syllables in spoken Chinese. Young readers—and older,
poor readers—are not necessarily aware of, or functionally able to
use, this principle (Ho Bryant, 1997; Shu et al., 2000); they may
encode characters as a whole, in which case the pronunciation of
compound characters is arbitrary and pronunciations must be
memorized one by one. Shu et al. (2000) pointed out that, at first,
a child’s awareness of the phonetic principle may be unsophisti-cated,
perhaps, if the child were able express it: “The part on the
right tells the pronunciation” (p. 61). They supposed that a more
sophisticated view emerges during elementary school, a view
which “presumably incorporates insights into the partial informa-tion
available in semi-regular characters” (p. 62).
One type of evidence that mastery of the alphabetic principle is
critical for learning to read English and other alphabetic languages
is the high correlation of pseudoword reading with word recogni-tion
and reading comprehension (e.g., Siegel, 1993), where the
pseudowords represent monosyllables without obscure or tricky
letter–sound relationships. Comparable, although still preliminary,
evidence has been found in support of the importance of the
phonetic principle in learning to read Chinese. Ho and Bryant
(1997) asked Hong Kong first and second graders to pronounce
compound characters, two-character words, and pseudocharacters.
The pseudocharacters were novel combinations of familiar seman-tic
radicals and familiar phonetic components in their legal posi-tions.
Pseudocharacter pronunciation was found to correlate highly
with the pronunciation of both compound characters and two-character
words. This implies that children who are aware of and
attempting to use the information in the phonetic component are
making better progress in learning to read. Similarly, C. K. Chan
and Siegel (2001) had Hong Kong children in the first through the
sixth grade read aloud a list of characters, about 80% of which
were semantic–phonetic compounds. Young normal readers had
significantly higher scores on a pseudocharacter pronunciation
task than young poor readers. These findings again imply that
better readers are trying to use the information in the phonetic
component.
That pseudocharacter pronunciation correlates highly with the
pronunciation of real Chinese characters and words creates a
paradox. Pronouncing a compound pseudocharacter involves no
more than naming its phonetic component. Yet, simply naming the
phonetic is not a strategy that can work well when pronouncing
real characters because of the low regularity and consistency of
real characters. To reiterate, only 23% of the compound characters
in school Chinese are entirely regular. It is apparent, therefore, that
a Chinese child cannot reliably predict the pronunciations of
unfamiliar compound characters. Nonetheless, the partial informa-tion
about pronunciation available in many less-than-fully regular
characters may be helpful for assimilating the characters, once the
pronunciation has been provided by the teacher, looked up in the
dictionary, or figured out from context while reading.
Ehri (1991, p. 402) has illustrated the use of partial information
for assimilating English words, using the example sword. Al-though
the word is irregular, and an English-speaking child who
did not know the word would not be able to predict its pronunci-ation
or spelling, the letters s, o, r, and d have their usual sound
values. Ehri’s research shows that the phonemically aware child
can use this partial information to readily encode and remember
sword and other English words containing partial information. In
a comparable way, we hypothesized that Chinese children can use
the partial information in tone-different and onset-different char-acters
to encode and remember the characters. This hypothesis was
evaluated in the present study.
The research reported in this article also evaluated the influence
of home language on learning to pronounce characters. Distinct
dialects of Chinese, so different that they are actually mutually
unintelligible languages, are spoken in the various regions of
China. Nevertheless, Mandarin is the language of instruction ev-erywhere.
The children who participated in the present study were
from Beijing, where the home language of children is Mandarin,
and from Guangzhou, where the home language of most children
is Cantonese. Cantonese-speaking children learn to speak, read,
and write Mandarin when they enter primary school. From the first
grade on, only Mandarin is supposed to be used in the classroom.
Children are admonished to speak Mandarin in the hallways and
on the playground.
2 This total includes characters that vary in tone as well as onset.
3. 54 ANDERSON, LI, KU, SHU, AND WU
Cantonese syllables, like those of Mandarin, consist of an onset,
a rime, and a tone. However, pronunciations have diverged over
the past 2,000 years. For example, whereas Mandarin has four
tones, Cantonese is considered to have nine. Many words in the
two dialects are cognates, that is, related in meaning and with
related but distinct pronunciations, much the same as the words
reason and raison, which are cognates in English and French,
respectively. These differences and similarities should influence
Cantonese-speaking children learning to read Mandarin in several
ways. In this study, we investigated whether the differences be-tween
home languages affected children’s ability to use partial
information to learn character pronunciations. It would not be
surprising to find that bilingual children whose home language is
Cantonese are slower than Mandarin-only children to learn Man-darin
pronunciations. However, we did not undertake the study
committed to a strong directional hypothesis. Previous research
indicates that bilingual children may develop superior metalinguis-tic
awareness that may help compensate for lack of fluency or
specific interference (Bialystok, 1986, 2001; Durgunoglu Ver-hoeven,
1998).
To recapitulate, we addressed three questions: (a) Can Chinese
children use partial information to help learn and remember the
pronunciations of unfamiliar tone-different and onset-different
characters? (b) Which kind of partial information can children
most readily use? (c) Does home language influence children’s
ability to learn pronunciations of unfamiliar characters?
Method
Participants
The participants were Spring semester second graders and fourth graders
from comparable working-class schools in Beijing and Guangzhou. There
were 49 second graders and 56 fourth graders from Beijing and 75 second
graders and 93 fourth graders from Guangzhou. Parents from Guangzhou
completed a questionnaire about the language used in the home; we
excluded students whose home language was not Cantonese.
Design and Procedure
A mixed, between-participants, within-participants design was used.
There were three between-participants factors, home language (Mandarin,
Cantonese), grade (second, fourth), and teacher’s rating of reading level
(low, middle, high) as well as two within-participants factors, type of
character (four types) and trial (two trials).
Children had two trials to learn the pronunciations of 28 unfamiliar
characters. During each trial, an experimenter standing in the front of the
classroom displayed and pronounced the characters one by one in a random
order at about a 2-s rate. Then the children indicated the pronunciation of
each character on an answer sheet on which the 28 characters appeared in
a different random order. The method of presenting and testing the char-acters
was the same during the second trial, except that the characters were
in different random orders.
The children indicated pronunciations by writing pinyin. Pinyin is an
alphabetic script children in the People’s Republic of China learn in the
first 10 weeks of first grade. The purpose of pinyin, literally “spell sound,”
is to help children learn the pronunciations of characters. All of the
characters in the first-grade textbooks are annotated with pinyin, and pinyin
is provided for the new characters in the second- and third-grade textbooks.
Having children write pinyin is an inexpensive option to having them
actually pronounce characters. An additional advantage of using pinyin in
the present study is that it side steps ambiguities in oral pronunciation,
which might be acute among dialect speakers. Children are highly familiar
with pinyin and easily able to use it. Meng, Shu, and Zhou (2000) found a
correlation of .93 between oral pronunciations and pronunciations written
in pinyin.
Four types of semantic–phonetic compound characters were used: (a)
regular characters, in which the phonetic component provides full infor-mation
(onset, rime, and tone) about the pronunciation of the character; (b)
tone-different characters, in which the phonetic has the same onset and
rime but not the same tone; (c) onset-different characters, in which the
phonetic has the same rime and tone but not the same onset; and (d)
characters with phonetics that children do not know, which therefore do not
convey any information about pronunciation. There were seven unfamiliar
characters of each type, unfamiliar in the sense that none of them were
listed to be explicitly taught in the textbooks for the first, second, third, or
four grades. The characters of each type were equated in frequency and in
number of strokes. All the characters had a left–right structure.
Teachers rated children’s reading level. These ratings served to classify
the children as low, middle, or high for the data analysis. Children also
completed grade-appropriate reading comprehension tests. However, with
one exception, these tests contained only a few items, had low reliability,
and will not be discussed further. The exception was the second-grade
sentence comprehension test, which consisted of 25 sentences (based on a
test by Nielsen, 1993). Each sentence was accompanied by four pictures.
The children’s task was to select the picture that best represented the
meaning of the sentence. This test had an estimated lower bound reliability
of .77 (Cronbach’s alpha).
Results
p The major 2
finding of the study was that type of character
strongly influenced the learning of pronunciations, Wilks’s
.123, F(3, 235) 556.88, p .01, .877. The high value of
partial eta squared (p 2 ) confirms a very large effect size; nearly
88% of between-characters sample variance is explained by type
of character. Planned comparisons indicate that, as expected, per-formance
was better on regular, t(207) 36.09, p .01, and
p 2
tone-different, t(207) 19.76, p .01, characters than characters
with unknown phonetics. As can be seen in Table 1, the advantage
of onset-different characters over phonetic-unknown characters
was much smaller, although as forecast this difference, too, was
significant, t(207) 3.56, p .01.
A second major finding was that monolingual children whose
home language is Mandarin were better able to learn the Mandarin
pronunciations of unfamiliar characters than bilingual children
whose home language is Cantonese, F(1, 237) 22.70, p .01,
.087. A significant interaction was found between character
p 2
type and home language, Wilks’s .938, F(3, 235) 5.17, p
.01, .062. As Figure 1 shows, there were differences between
monolingual and bilingual students on regular, tone-different, and
onset-different characters but not on characters with unknown
phonetics. This result indicates that monolingual children are bet-ter
able than bilingual children to use the information provided by
p the phonetic 2
component.
Children averaged 23% correct pronunciations on the first trial
and 36% on the second trial, which is a significant improvement,
Wilks’s .316, F(1, 237) 513.16, p .01, .684. Grade
had a significant effect, F(1, 237) 93.78, p .01, p 2
.284.
Fourth graders could pronounce 35% of the characters, whereas
second graders could pronounce 23%. Neither the Character
Type Grade, Grade Home Language, nor the Character
Type Grade Home Language interactions were significant.
4. PARTIAL INFORMATION IN LEARNING CHINESE CHARACTERS 55
Table 1
Percentage Correct Pronunciations as a Function of Type of Character, Home Language,
and Grade
Type of character
Mandarin Cantonese
2nd grade 4th grade 2nd grade 4th grade All groups
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
Regular 52 26 73 20 45 25 61 24 58 24
Tone different 31 21 52 23 27 17 35 21 36 21
Onset different 11 14 21 18 8 11 16 14 14 14
Phonetic unknown 4 8 15 18 2 6 14 18 9 12
All types 24 17 40 19 21 15 32 19 29 18
p 2
Reading level, as rated by teachers, significantly influenced
performance, F(2, 237) 62.14, p .01, .344. Moreover,
p 2
there was a Character Type Reading Level interaction, Wilks’s
.935, F(6, 472) 2.69, p .02, .033. Table 2 displays
the percentage of correct pronunciations by character type and
reading level. Reading level is less strongly associated with per-formance
on regular characters than the characters of the other
three types. Also significant was the Character Type Reading
Level Grade interaction, Wilks’s .918, F(6, 472) 3.43,
p .01, p 2
.041. This interaction qualifies the two-way inter-action
just described, indicating that the effect is mainly due to
fourth graders: Low and average fourth graders perform almost as
well as high fourth graders on regular characters, whereas reading
level is more strongly related to performance on the other three
types of characters in the fourth grade and every type of character
in the second grade.
An analysis of children’s errors in reproducing the pronuncia-tion
of the newly learned characters is summarized in Table 3.
Errors consist of mistakes or omissions on one or more of the three
phonological features for describing Chinese pronunciations—
onset, rime, and tone. For example, /ba/ is a regular character.
If a student wrote /pa¯/, then an onset error was tallied in the regular
character column; if the student wrote /pa´/, then a tone error as
well as an onset error was tallied. Both second and fourth graders
made more errors when less information was available in the
phonetic. That is, children made progressively more errors on
regular, tone-different, onset-different, and phonetic-unknown
characters. Not surprisingly, when the phonetic component pro-vided
partial information, children made more errors on the ele-ment
of the compound character that was not consistent with its
phonetic component. That is, they made more tone errors on
tone-different characters and more onset errors on onset-different
characters. When the phonetic component provided full informa-tion
or no information about the pronunciation of the whole
character, the errors children made were more or less evenly
distributed across the three phonological elements.
Cantonese-speaking second graders averaged 83% correct on
the sentence comprehension test, whereas Mandarin-speaking sec-ond
graders averaged 78% correct, which is not a significant
difference. For second graders, the correlations of sentence com-prehension
scores and teacher’s rating of reading level with total
characters correctly pronounced were .11 and .48 ( p .01) for
Cantonese speakers and .17 and .56 ( p .01) for Mandarin
speakers, respectively. For fourth graders, the correlations of
teacher’s rating of reading level with total characters correctly
pronounced were .52 ( p .01) for Cantonese speakers and .55
( p .01) for Mandarin speakers.
Table 2
Percentage Correct Pronunciations as a Function of Character
Type and Reading Level
Type of character
Reading level
Low Middle High
M SD M SD M SD
Regular 48 27 58 25 69 20
Tone different 23 18 38 21 48 21
Onset different 8 12 14 14 22 17
Phonetic unknown 5 13 10 15 13 17
All types 21 19 30 19 38 19
Figure 1. Percentage correct pronunciations as a function of character
type and home language.
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Discussion
This study convincingly demonstrates that children as young as
second grade can make use of information in the phonetic com-ponent
to learn the pronunciations of novel compound characters.
Especially newsworthy is the fact that they can use partial infor-mation
about pronunciation. Of the two types of characters exam-ined
in the present study that contain partial information, the
information in tone-different characters proved to be readily ac-cessible
to children, whereas the information in onset-different
characters was marginally accessible to them.
The present study confirms and extends the finding of Ho and
Bryant (1997) that children can use the partial information about
pronunciation in tone-different characters. However, both studies
also demonstrate the limits of partial information: performance on
tone-different characters is substantially worse than performance
on completely regular characters, which of course provide full
information about pronunciation. During the second trial in the
present study, neither second graders nor fourth graders had come
up to the level of performance attained during the first trial on
completely regular characters. As Ho and Bryant said, repeated
exposure is necessary for children to learn the pronunciation of
tone-different characters.
The finding that children can use the information in onset-different
characters is without precedent in the previous literature.
It is doubly true, however, that repeated exposure is necessary to
learn onset-different characters. During the second trial, children
were still far worse on onset-different characters than during the
first trial on either regular or tone-different characters.
Some level of metalinguistic awareness is implicated as a pre-requisite
for a child to make use of partial information about
pronunciation (Nagy Anderson, 1998; Shu Anderson, 1999;
Treiman Zukowski, 1991). Specifically, tone awareness would
seem to be necessary to make use of the information in tone-different
characters, and onset–rime awareness would seem to be
necessary for children to use the information in onset-different
characters. By tone awareness and onset–rime awareness, we mean
the ability to identify, reflect on, and manipulate these facets of
language. Tone awareness, for example, can be assessed in an
odd-man-out task. Among /ha´n/, /jiaˇng/, and /do˘u/, for instance,
the odd one is /ha´n/ because it has a different tone than the other
two.
Previous research shows that facets of phonological awareness
are important for learning to read Chinese (Hu Catts, 1998;
Huang Hanley, 1995; Taylor, 2001). McBride-Chang and Ho
(2000) found that syllable deletion was related to character recog-nition.
So and Siegel (1997) reported a significant difference
between poor and average readers in tone discrimination. Ho and
Bryant (1997) found significant correlations of rime detection with
character and pseudocharacter pronunciation. Li, Anderson, Nagy,
and Zhang (2001) found significant relationships between syllable
reversal, onset–rime discrimination, and especially tone discrimi-nation
with measures of reading. However, none of these studies
evaluated the specific hypothesis that tone awareness and onset–
rime awareness would facilitate learning the pronunciation of
tone-different and onset-different characters, nor was the hypoth-esis
evaluated in this study.
Another newsworthy finding from the present research is that
children from Guangzhou, who are learning Mandarin as a second
language, are less able to use phonetic information to learn Man-darin
pronunciations than children from Beijing, who are mono-lingual
speakers of Mandarin. Presumably children from Guang-zhou
performed less well because of interference from Cantonese
or lack of fluent access to Mandarin pronunciations, although
bilingualism is complicated (see, e.g., Durgunoglu, Nagy,
Hancin-Bhatt, 1999) and we are unable to say exactly what the
mechanism is. Despite relatively poor performance on the pronun-ciation
task, Cantonese-speaking children performed as well as or
better than Mandarin-speaking children on the measures of reading
comprehension. This suggests that in Chinese there is not a tight
coupling between ability to pronounce characters and ability to
comprehend.
Fourth graders learned more pronunciations than second grad-ers.
Perhaps this implies that fourth graders have learned how to
learn the pronunciations of unfamiliar characters. Or, maybe fourth
graders knew the pronunciations of some of the supposedly unfa-miliar
characters, inasmuch as unfamiliar characters were opera-tionally
defined as characters not yet taught in school. Fourth
graders may have figured out the pronunciations of some charac-ters
not yet taught in school when they encountered the characters
in independent readings, or they may have looked up some of these
characters in a dictionary.
The teacher’s rating was the only measure of reading level that
had consistently high correlations with character pronunciation.
This suggests that in China as well as in the United States (Hoge
Coladarci, 1989), teachers are a source of valid and reliable
information about reading.
With the exception of the teacher rating, the correlations be-tween
the measures of reading and character pronunciation were
mostly low. Some of the measures of reading contained small
numbers of items and were unreliable. However, this was not true
of the sentence comprehension measure used in the second grade,
which had 25 items and reliability conservatively estimated at .77.
Yet, this measure correlated only .11 and .17 with total characters
correctly pronounced among Cantonese-speaking and Mandarin-speaking
children, respectively. In learning to read Chinese, ap-parently
there is a disjunction between comprehension and pro-nunciation.
Children probably are able to use the information about
meaning in the semantic radicals of compound characters (L. Chan
Nunes, 1998; Shu Anderson, 1997) and their knowledge of
word structure and syntax (Ku Anderson, 2000; Li et al., 2001)
to comprehend sentences well enough to match the sentences with
pictures, without necessarily being able to accurately pronounce
every character.
Table 3
Proportions of Errors as a Function of Character Type
Type of error Regular
Tone
different
Onset
different
Unknown
phonetic
2nd grade
Onset error .39 .44 .88 .94
Rime error .38 .51 .58 .96
Tone error .45 .64 .65 .91
4th grade
Onset error .20 .25 .73 .75
Rime error .22 .30 .35 .75
Tone error .26 .49 .43 .72
6. PARTIAL INFORMATION IN LEARNING CHINESE CHARACTERS 57
In conclusion, when we take a close look, awareness of the
phonetic principle is not as rudimentary as it may appear to be
among beginning readers. At the beginning stage, children’s un-derstanding
of the principle might be something like, “The part on
the right tells the pronunciation” (Shu et al., 2000, p. 61). At this
stage, children recognize the phonetic component of a semantic–
phonetic character and use it directly to read the character. As they
become more experienced in reading, children who are making
good progress learn how to cope with more complicated relation-ships
between the phonetic component and the pronunciation of a
character. Among the things they learn is how to make use of
partial information to learn and remember the pronunciations of
novel characters.
Chinese teachers typically do not explain the logic of characters
to their students (Wu, Li, Anderson, 1999). They evidently feel
it would be useless to explain the role of the phonetic component
in compound characters, because such a large proportion of com-pound
characters are irregular. The present study suggests that
typical practice may be too conservative. Although we won’t know
for sure until the research is done, it seems probable that if teachers
were to point out the partial information about pronunciation
available in semiregular characters, they might enable average-and
low-performing students to use information that, to some
extent, high-performing students have discovered how to use with-out
special instruction.
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