Scaffolding Singaporean Students to Write Vividly in the ‘Mother Tongue’, Mandarin

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

SingaKids-Mandarin: Speech Corpus of Singaporean Children Speaking Mandarin Chinese

We present SingaKids-Mandarin, a speech corpus of 255 Singaporean children aged 7 to 12 reading Mandarin Chinese, for a total of 125 hours of data (75 hours of speech) and 79,843 utterances. This corpus is phonetically balanced and detailed in human annotations, including phonetic transcriptions, lexical tone markings, and proficiency scoring at the utterance level. The reading scripts span a d...

Automatic Scaffolding and Measurement of Concept Mapping for EFL Students to Write Summaries

An incorrect concept map may obstruct a student’s comprehension when writing summaries if they are unable to grasp key concepts when reading texts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of automatic scaffolding and measurement of three-layer concept maps on improving university students’ writing summaries. The automatic three-layer concept maps presented in this study include...

Implementing Mother-tongue

Hong Kong is a homogeneous community both in terms of race (98% Chinese) and language (over 80% speak Cantonese as their mother tongue). However, the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics there are such that English is the dominant medium of instruction at secondary level and above, while Modern Mandarin, a non-indigenous Chinese (standard) dialect, provides the norms for both the use of Chin...

investigating the interaction of language knowledge and strategic competence in the performance of efl learners on reading-to-write and writing-only test tasks

این مطالعه به دو روش کمی و کیفی و با هدف بررسی استراتژی های فراشناختی فراگیران زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجی در دو آزمون نوشتن و نوشتن ترکیبی انجام پذیرفت. در بخش کمی برای سنجش میزان استراتژی های فراشناختی از یک پرسشنامه که بر اساس مدل بکمن و پالمر (1996) ساخته شده بود استفاده شد. پایایی و روایی سازه ی پرسشنامه هنگام مطالعه ی پایلوت و روایی محتوای آن با جمع آوری نظرات نُه متخصص در رشته سنجیده...