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Author : Mable Chan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Acquisition of 'be' by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong and Its Pedagogical Implications written by Mable Chan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mable Chan
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034313070
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Acquisition of «be» by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong- and Its Pedagogical Implications written by Mable Chan and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports the findings of a study concerning acquisition of be by Cantonese ESL learners in Hong Kong. It investigates the relationship between input, knowledge and performance through examining grammaticality judgment data, production data and acceptability judgment data.
Author : Alice Yin Wa Chan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000818373
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Acquisition of English Grammar and Phonology by Cantonese ESL Learners written by Alice Yin Wa Chan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chan’s exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges that learners often encounter and posits ways to help them overcome those challenges. Possible sources of the challenges are also examined. The book covers the basic differences between English and Cantonese grammar as well as those between English and Cantonese phonology. Chan discusses the kinds of grammatical and phonological problems that Cantonese ESL learners often have in their acquisition of English. In terms of grammar, various structures are reviewed, including errors which are clearly due to L1 interference and also those which may not be directly L1-related. Learners’ common misconceptions about relevant concepts are also revealed. In terms of phonology, both speech perception and speech production problems at the segmental and suprasegmental levels are examined. For learner problems which may be the result of L1 interference, a contrastive approach is adopted in analysing the cause and nature of the errors. Chan also offers readers pedagogical insights to target common grammatical problems, including the use of an algorithmic approach, the use of a discovery-based consciousness-raising approach and the use of metalinguistic explanations. As far as the learning of English phonology is concerned, she argues that the training of speech production should go hand-in-hand with that of speech perception. Future research can experiment with the proposed teaching ideas with Cantonese ESL learners and learners of other native languages. Researchers and ESL teaching professionals will find the insights and research contained within this volume invaluable when encountering or researching Chinese ESL learners.
Author : Pui-Kwan So
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361208205
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Acquisition of English Passives by Cantonese ESL Learners written by Pui-Kwan So and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Acquisition of English Passives by Cantonese ESL Learners" by Pui-kwan, So, 蘇佩君, 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 This paper examines Hong Kong Cantonese ESL learners who always find difficulties and make mistakes in the acquisition of English passives. Since passivization has complex structures across different languages, English passives and Cantonese passives do not undergo the same syntactic operation. The current paper provides background information about the contrastive approach in SLA research, rules of forming English passives and types of passives in Cantonese. With a research design of a grammaticality judgment test, Cantonese ESL learners' sensitivity to different passive constructions related to NP-movement and thematic roles is explored. Learners' competence in judging ergative or middle constructions is also investigated. The results suggest that Cantonese ESL learners experience difficulties in the expletive IT, thematic roles except Agent and the middle constructions. i DOI: 10.5353/th_b3157177 Subjects: English language - Voice - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Cantonese speakers English language - Voice - Study and teaching (Secondary) - China - Hong Kong Second language acquisition
Author : Hoi-Wah Winnie Wong
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361233672
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (336 download)
Download or read book The Influence of Cantonese in the Acquisition of English Negation Among Cantonese ESL Learners written by Hoi-Wah Winnie Wong and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Influence of Cantonese in the Acquisition of English Negation Among Cantonese ESL Learners" by Hoi-wah, Winnie, Wong, 黃凱華, 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. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3196314 Subjects: English language - Negatives English language - Study and teaching - Cantonese speakers Second language acquisition
Author : Pui-kwan So
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (624 download)
Download or read book The Acquisition of English Passives by Cantonese ESL Learners written by Pui-kwan So and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Wakefield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351184237
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Cantonese as a Second Language written by John C. Wakefield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cantonese is a language from southern China that is spoken by roughly 70 million people worldwide. It is the language of Hong Kong cinema and has traditionally been the most prominent language spoken in Chinatowns around the world. People choose to learn Cantonese for a variety of social and economic reasons: because it is a heritage language that one’s relatives speak; because it is the language of one’s partner and monolingual in-laws; because it is necessary for living and working in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, or other Cantonese-speaking communities; because it is the bridge to fully appreciating and understanding Cantonese culture; or simply because it is an irresistible challenge. Whatever the motivation, more and more people are choosing to learn Cantonese as an additional language. This book discusses many issues related to both acquiring and teaching Cantonese. If you are a learner of Cantonese, this long overdue volume is essential to understanding both the grammatical and the social issues involved with learning this notoriously difficult language. If you are a teacher, this book will be invaluable to gaining insight into your students’ motivations and needs. And finally, if you are an applied linguist, the unique aspects related to the acquisition of Cantonese offer a fascinating contribution to the literature.
Author : Jeffrey Thomas Beer
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361313466
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Acquisition of Subject-Verb Agreement in Pre-Pubertal Cantonese Students in Hong Kong written by Jeffrey Thomas Beer and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Acquisition of Subject-verb Agreement in Pre-pubertal Cantonese Students in Hong Kong" by Jeffrey Thomas, Beer, 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: Language is probably the greatest thing developed by mankind. Yet few have come to understand how it is acquired. I am one of them. I want to understand how it is acquired, and how students come to understand the important area of subject-verb agreement. The purpose of the research was to gain an understanding of local students whose mother tongue is Cantonese (L1), and what are the factors affecting their acquisition of subject-verb agreement in English. To a lesser degree, it is aimed at gaining an understanding of how language is acquired; to gain an understanding on how second language is acquired; and to gain an understanding of how grammar is acquired. The research was carried out as the author wanted to see if there was a reason why students could not understand subject-verb agreement in English. The author wanted to look at four main reasons. These included biological reasons, physiological reasons, developmental reason, and cultural reason. The research was conducted on children aged six to twelve from two main school streams (public and private) using a quantitative and qualitative survey. The quantitative survey included fifteen missing words, twenty statements, and five sentences to see if students could recognise if the statements were ungrammatical or grammatical. The qualitative survey was conducted with a group of primary four students (aged nine to ten) to gain an understanding of why certain answers were selected and what was the reasoning behind the decisions the participants made. From the researcher, it was discovered there was some level of first language interference, though to the exact degree it was questionable as it could not be determined quantifiably. It was evident from the YoE data that students new to English had the highest number of errors. It was also found that there was no absolute or definitive time or age when subject-verb agreement was evident. However, there was a sharp decrease in the number of errors at both schools at the age of eight. The results also show that culture does influence the learning of English as a second language in Hong Kong. It is not just because Cantonese has no Subject-verb agreement; it also extends to the teaching practices in the classroom and the culture of teaching through grammar. The problems this created became evident in the research. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5017525 Subjects: English language - Study and teaching - Cantonese speakers English language - Study and teaching (Primary) - China - Hong Kong Second language acquisition
Author : Mable Chan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (433 download)
Download or read book The Acquisition of Middles and Unaccusatives by Cantonese ESL Learners written by Mable Chan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mable Chan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811653321
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Challenges Encountered by Chinese ESL Learners written by Mable Chan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a blended approach in outlining the properties of grammatical knowledge that have been causing difficulty to Chinese speaking learners, including tense and aspect, articles, passives, unaccusatives, plurality and motion verbs. It explains from different linguistics perspectives how these constraints/difficulties might be dealt with. It also offers readers a comprehensive account of these problems, and outlines the possible pedagogical solutions teachers can try in the classroom. These topics are selected because they bring substantial challenges and difficulties to Chinese English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. This book bridges the gap between acquisition theory and language pedagogy research, benefiting not just language learners but language teachers around the world, and all those who would like to witness collaboration between second language acquisition theory and second language teaching practice in general. It initiates future work in which researchers from different fields with diverging theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches will be able to develop studies that are compatible with each other. This overall can facilitate our understanding of second language acquisition, and how instruction might help.
Author : Sun Keung Lo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The Markedness Differential Hypothesis and the Acquisition of English Final Consonants by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong written by Sun Keung Lo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chung-Hin Kwan
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ISBN 13 : 9781361393741
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)
Download or read book An Investigation of English Errors of Hong Kong Secondary 1 and Secondary 5 Students and Their Relationship with Mother Tongue Cantonese Transfer written by Chung-Hin Kwan and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "An Investigation of English Errors of Hong Kong Secondary 1 and Secondary 5 Students and Their Relationship With Mother Tongue Cantonese Transfer" by Chung-hin, Kwan, 關仲顯, 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. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3195943 Subjects: Language transfer (Language learning) Interlanguage (Language learning) English language - China - Hong Kong - Errors of usage English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching (Secondary) - China - Hong Kong High school students - China - Hong Kong - Language English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Error analysis Second language acquisition
Author : Siu-lun Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000889890
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language written by Siu-lun Lee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language brings together contributions on such issues as Cantonese textbooks, linguistic description, literacy and tone acquisition, supplemented by case studies from the Netherlands and Japan. The learning and teaching of Cantonese as a second language is a subject of considerable interest in the international academic community, and the first international symposium on teaching Cantonese as a second language, held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in October 2019, brought together leading researchers in this field. This conference provided the inspiration for the current volume, The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language. In the Hong Kong context, historically, the term ‘Cantonese’ refers to the language varieties of immigrants who came to the territory from various areas in Guangdong province, including Macau, Panyu, Taishan, Xinhui and Zhongshan. From the late nineteenth century onwards, their speech coalesced into the contemporary variety of Cantonese used in Hong Kong today. The term ‘Cantonese’ is also used to refer to the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, which includes varieties of Cantonese spoken in southern China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore and among overseas Chinese in Australia, Europe and North America. In all, it is estimated that there are about 70 million Cantonese speakers in the world. This volume is of direct relevance to educators, language teachers, linguists and all those concerned with the learning of Cantonese as a second language.
Author : James Strang
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361210765
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Unlearning of Null Subjects in Cantonese Speaking Learners of English written by James Strang and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Unlearning of Null Subjects in Cantonese Speaking Learners of English" by James, Strang, 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: The Unlearning of Null Subjects in Cantonese Speaking Learners of English. James Strang Abstract. This dissertation examines the factors involved in the resetting of the null subject parameter of Cantonese speaking learners of English. It shows how null subject transfer differs between topic oriented languages such as Cantonese and pro-drop languages like Spanish. It then explores the evidence for triggers that has been suggested in studies of the null subject parameter in other topic oriented languages by Wakabayashi (2002), Yang (1998), Park (2004) and Yuan (1997). The problems that arise from the conflicting results of these studies are then compared to the results of my own study of four Cantonese speaking young learners of English, aged eight, nine, ten and eleven, whose oral language was recorded over a six week period and studied for the production of null subjects and possible triggers. The paper surprisingly 1concludes that unlike the previous studies, there is no evidence of parametric resetting but rather a non null subject parameter is acquired in a similar way to that proposed by Valian's 1991 study of first language non null subject acquisition. I suggest that the findings can be accounted for by the age difference of the participants in the different studies. I then discuss the implications of this and a number of questions that remain unaddressed by this study. 2 DOI: 10.5353/th_b3165349 Subjects: English language - Syntax English language - Study and teaching - Cantonese speakers
Author : Lixun Wang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030110818
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools written by Lixun Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Hong Kong as a multilingual society. It investigates how trilingual education is implemented in Hong Kong primary schools. Based on a large scale survey of 155 Hong Kong schools and in-depth case studies in 3 selected schools, the book gives an overview of trilingual education in Hong Kong primary schools, revealing the views on trilingual education of all stakeholders: school principals, panel chairs, subject teachers, students, and parents. The research findings presented in this book suggest that the implementation of trilingual education varies significantly from school to school, as does the effectiveness of the trilingual education models used. It shows how students’ views towards the use of different media of instruction (MoIs) also vary, and how their mother-tongue backgrounds affect their perceptions. By documenting views, policies and implementation methods, the book provides insight into the practice of trilingual education in Hong Kong and offers suggestions on potentially effective implementation methods.
Author : 羅美嫻
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361209790
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Acquisition of English Subject-Verb Agreement by Cantonese Speakers written by 羅美嫻 and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Acquisition of English Subject-verb Agreement by Cantonese Speakers" by 羅美嫻, Mei-han, Crystal, Law, 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 Second language acquisition (SLA) is the study of how second languages are learned. It investigates how people acquire another language which is not their native language. Many have argued that SLA research has important contributions to make to an understanding of the mature of language and human cognition. It is generally accepted that in progressing to the grammar of the second language, learners have their own version of the second language called 'interlanguage'. Interlanguage resembles part of the grammar of the second language as well as the first language. Based on the notion of interlanguage, it is expected that learners will make mistakes since the interlanguage of learners have not yet fully attained the grammar of the second language. Cantonese does not have functional equivalents of the English Subject-verb agreement. Correspondingly, there is plenty of observational evidence that Cantonese speakers have difficulty with Subject-verb agreement system in English. For instance, Chinese secondary learners have great difficulties in learning tenses. Levinson(1983) points in Chinese without true tenses the concept of time is expressed by adverbs as well as other implicit and contextual assumptions. In this thesis, the written production as well as grammaticality judgment data obtained from native Cantonese speakers acquiring English as a second language was examined. The grammar errors which were related to Subject-verb agreement mainly about singular & plural, tense, negation and interrogation were selected as the target iii 5grammar items. The finding of F2 and F5 subjects were compared in order to explore the language development among adolescents. This thesis aimed at studying the acquisition of English Subject-Verb agreement by native Cantonese speakers. One of the objectives was to examine and describe the production of English Subject-Verb agreement and to provide an explanation of the phenomena found. Moreover, the learning experience and its effect on second language acquisition were also investigated in this thesis. vi DOI: 10.5353/th_b3162776 Subjects: English language - Study and teaching - Cantonese speakers English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - China - Hong Kong Second language acquisition
Author : Lok-Sze Josephine Wat
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361478653
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Cantonese-Speaking Students' Handling of Wh-Questions in English written by Lok-Sze Josephine Wat 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, "Cantonese-speaking Students' Handling of WH-questions in English" by Lok-Sze, Josephine, Wat, 屈樂思, 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 "Cantonese-speaking Students' Handling of WH-questions in English" Submitted by Wat Lok Sze, Josephine for the degree of Master of Arts in Linguistics at The University of Hong Kong In June 2006 Both L1 and L2 empirical researches reveal that difficulty in handling wh-movement in English interrogatives is a common phenomenon for both L1 and L2 English learners. Previous studies suggested that the properties of the wh-words, imperfect application of inversion rule, syntactic complexity, first language intervention and learner's use of learning strategies all contributed to the phenomenon. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the phenomenon of performing inversion in English interrogatives by Hong Kong primary schools' learners of English as a second language. Three research questions are studied in the present study: (1) what type(s) of wh-question(s) causes difficulty in wh-movement to Hong Kong learners of English as a second language, (2) What is/are the reason(s) for the difficulties and (3) What are the pedagogical implications to teaching and learning. Twenty upper-primary students from a government-aided primary school participated in the study. For research question 1, subjects were asked to do a question-and-answer (Q & A) test in English interrogatives to investigate what types of wh-questions causes difficulty in wh-movement. For research question 2, a grammatical judgment task was conducted to examine the degree of first language intervention. For research question 3, an intensive instruction of learning strategies was given to the subjects for a week. The effectiveness of the instruction was evaluated by asking the subject to do the Q & A test again in research question 1. Results of the test reveal that subjects have better performance in handling wh-movement in argument wh-questions than in adjunct wh-questions. Learner's performance is sensitive to syntactic complexity. First language intervention is not the prime and sole cause of the difficulty in handling inversion. Student's performance of inversion can benefit from the proper use of learning strategies. With reference to the results of the study, it is concluded that the difficulty of wh-movement is a multi-factor phenomenon. Properties of the wh-words, syntactic complexity, first language intervention and language learning strategies all play a role. The research findings in the present study confirm previous L1 and L2 research on inversion. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3692264 Subjects: English language - Interrogative English language - Errors of usage English language - Study and teaching - Cantonese speakers
