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The unlearning of null subjects in Cantonese speaking learners of EnglishStrang, James. January 2005 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / Linguistics / Master / Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics
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The study of "fluency" in English: with reference to corpus linguistic data from Hong Kong and GreatBritainLok, Mai-chi, Ian., 樂美志. January 2001 (has links)
published_or_final_version / English Studies / Master / Master of Arts
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An experimental study of the English verb system and the difficulties it poses for Chinese secondary pupilsCheng, Hsü-ning, William., 鄭旭寧. January 1968 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Arts in Education
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The enigma of Cantonese tones: how intonationlanguage speakers can be assisted to discern themKi, Wing-wah., 祁永華. January 2007 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / Education / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
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The perception and production of lexical stress by Cantonese speakers of EnglishChan, Ming-kei, Kevin., 陳銘基. January 2007 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy
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When the Cantonese "b" is the English /p: stop-consonant voicing strategies across languagesChan, Siu-wing, 陳兆榮 January 2009 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Psychology / Master / Master of Philosophy
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Chinese EFL learners' pragmatic and discourse transfer in the discourse of L2 requestsLi, Citing., 李茨婷. January 2009 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Applied English Studies / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
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The investigation of the effectiveness of process writing method to enhance the practical writing ability of international school students who learn Chinese as a second language = Guo cheng xie zuo jiao xue fa dui ti sheng guo ji xue xiao Zhong wen wei di er yu yan xue sheng xie zuo ying yong wen zhi cheng xiao yan jiu / The investigation of the effectiveness of process writing method to enhance the practical writing ability of international school students who learn Chinese as a second language = 過程寫作教學法對提升國際學校中文為第二語言學生寫作應用文之成效研究Chan, Lai-wa, 陳麗華 January 2014 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education
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The effects of cultural background on reading comprehension of ESL learners.Khalil, Adnan M. January 1989 (has links)
This study investigates the effects of cultural background on reading comprehension of ESL learners. Theoretically, this study emanates from schema theory. That is, the readers' comprehension is believed to be affected by background knowledge. Forty-eight ESL students, sorted into three groups (beginning, intermediate and advanced), were randomly assigned to the treatment, which was the reading of a familiar and unfamiliar, high difficulty and/or low difficulty passages. Procedures included a survey, a pre-test, passages and a post-test. The survey was used to select the two topics for the passages. The pre-test consisted of questions based on both passages. The passages were one familiar and one unfamiliar, and each type was written on two difficulty levels. The post-test was the same test given to the students as a pre-test. The dependent variable was the 20-item multiple choice test based on two passages, "The Weekend" and "Groundhog Day". Two question types were included: (1) literal, and (2) inferential. The data were analyzed using several analyses of variance, t-tests and, for post hoc testing of significance, the Scheffe was utilized. Results indicate that the reading level has an effect on the ESL students' comprehension when reading a culturally different passage. However, passage type (familiar-unfamiliar) and passage difficulty (high difficulty-low difficulty) did not have effects on ESL readers' comprehension.
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Child second language acquisition and grammatical theories: The Minimalist Program and optimality theoryPark, Hyeson January 2000 (has links)
The aim of linguistic theory is to explain what knowledge of language consists of and how this knowledge is acquired. Generative linguistics, which had set out to achieve this goal, has recently seen the development of two main approaches to Universal Grammar (UG). One is the Minimalist Program (MP) and the other is Optimality Theory (OT). In the MP framework, language is claimed to be acquired through parameter setting, while in OT language acquisition is viewed as a constraint reranking process. In this study, I compare the two evolving linguistic theories in relation to child L2 acquisition phenomena; that is, how and whether the two different approaches to UG could be used to account for language development in real time. The database for this study was a corpus of natural and elicited-interview speech collected by the National Center for Bilingual Research from six Korean children learning English as an L2 in a bilingual education school program. Two constructions, null arguments and wh-questions produced by the Korean children in their developing L2 English, were chosen for in-depth investigation. The data analysis shows that (1) the children dropped few subjects from the early stages, (2) the children dropped more objects than subjects, (3) the children did not apply subject-verb inversion in why -questions, and (4) of the wh-questions, when-questions were one of the last to appear in the children's developing English. It was examined whether these four findings could be explained within the MP and the OT frameworks. The MP and OT in their present forms, however, do not seem to be able to fully account for the data. I have proposed some adaptations of the theories and explored plausible explanations. The overall picture emerging from the study is that the gradual nature of language development can best be explained as being a result of the incremental acquisition of the lexicon. The relationship between linguistic theory and acquisition studies, especially second language acquisition studies, has been unidirectional, from theory to acquisition (SLA) studies. It is to be hoped that this study may contribute to connecting the gap between linguistic theory and SLA studies, and making their relationship more bidirectional.
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