With the rapid growth of Chinese economic power and increasing demand for foreigners to communicate with Chinese people, the learning of Chinese language as a foreign language among non-Chinese speakers has gained popularity in many countries around the globe (Scrimgeour, 2014, cited in Chen & Yeung, A.S.2015).
Although Linnell, (2001; cited in Shum, Ki & Leong, 2014) noted that outside of China, Chinese is taught as a second (L2) or foreign language (FL) for general purposes in schools such as public, private schools and universities; it is currently being taught as a second language in China, and it is compulsory for all international students regardless of their majors. Nevertheless, the time allocated for each Chinese language class depends
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Consequently, research into motivation in foreign and second language learning has been researchers’ focus in recent years. It is regarded as a basic and essential part of learning. Hence, it is believed that the learner whose intention is to be motivated, will obviously necessitate, require and need to come up with something to anticipate and learners’ expectations are linked with their aim or target. Various researches were conducted on students’ motivation in language learning. This field has been extensively explored with the major emphasis on the learners. Various factors that were linked to students’ motivation in language learning were considered during these researches. For instance, …show more content…
This family is also referred to as Trans-Himalayan. Sino Tibetan languages, according to The KryssTall Website, (2017) is one of important Asian languages family. This is due to the fact that it contains Chinese language (Mandarin ) which is the world's most spoken language. It is the family of above four hundred languages spoken in Asia and apart from it, there are also Burmese and Tibetic languages that both cover the total speakers of around 41millions. James A. MATISOFF of The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus, (2017) noted that by any criterion such as number of speakers, antiquity of documented written history, cultural implication, and impact on other languages) Chinese language remains one of the crucial languages.
Chinese writing system is non-alphabetic in its nature. This unique nature has brought about challenges for the historical linguists who have been interested in reconstructing the phonological features of earlier stages of the language. Additively, it has raised issues in establishing a genetic connection between mandarin and others languages. Bernhard Karlgren, is a Swedish Sinologist, who faced the similar challenges when he spent thirty five years to reconstruct the phonological aspect of thousands of Chinese language characters pronunciation (Karlgren 1923, 1954,
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phonetic alphabet was created by The wooden people vs. Creek Myth, “a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon.” (Now that is a dictionary version of what myth is and it makes it seem like myths are just stories that people made in the past and believed in.) Although most myths were made to explain the world around people, myths also have themes or lessons in them that can teach people lots of things even in today’s societies.
an inclusive workplace is the best way to combat stereotyping, if a childcare setting has a mixture of different cultures, races, ages and sexes. Languages from around the world can be displayed around the setting and pictures of children with disabilities, different faiths and ethnic backgrounds. Also the setting could have recipes from around the world based on the ethnic backgrounds of the users of the
Lastly, Historians have demonstrated that this Dynasty has already developed the principles of modern writing techniques. In fact, Chinese literature has undergone relatively limited amounts of change since it was first developed. Documents were initially
Tibetan question, from the beginning of the 1300’s right through history until the present day there has been a constant struggle between China and Tibet and whether China has the right to exploit Tibet politically and economically. The Mongol Dynasty expanded across Asia, and through this they covered the province of Tibet when the empire receded, Tibet was still a part of China. Through the progression of history there has been a constant struggle between the two nations. Tibet is one of the richest nations in the world in terms of its resources and China on the other is struggling severely because their ever-expanding population and the decline in resources such as water and minerals. China refers to Tibet as a province within the country
Many of my teachers remarked me as “reassuring”, and a lot of my friends have told me that “It seems that you’re so chilled but you actually know what you’re doing”. Yes, I was born with a phlegmatic personality, but it was not until last year when I “failed” the AMC (luckily I was still qualified for the AIME) that I started to learn how to manage time and resource wisely and actually grew up. I spent my first 14 years in my life in China, and in the summer 2013, I moved to US with my family, seeking for new challenges-- I’ve always believed that unfamiliar environment provokes one to learn the most. However though I thought I was prepared for the worst, things got out of hand, as how it goes every time one is put in a new wonder land. It didn’t take more than a month to surmount the language barrier, but
The sound system is more complex and inconsistent in English than in other languages. There are more than 40 different phonemes in spoken English, and there can be a number of different phonemes to represent the same sound (for example, f and ph'). Phonics helps us to look at the different letter patterns together, along with their sounds. Synthetic phonics puts the teaching of letters and sounds into an orderly framework. It requires the reader to learn simpler individual sounds first, then start to put them together to form words, and finally progress to the most complex combinations.
As a result, African markets still have to receive a large numbers of Chinese employees. However, Chinese employees lag far behind European and American people in language ability. Communication is often done by language description and
For Chin community’s children, many people came to the United States at a young age that they barely know anything about their culture. It was hard for them to live in a mix-cultures because they are comfortable with the American culture, yet they also acquire to live with their parents’ culture. However, inside of their household, their parents taught them their culture’s tradition and show them certain part of the tradition. Those lessons make kids know about their own culture and be able to understand in many ways including language barrier that they have. Thous, a few children who did not learn their native culture also bear a hard time dealing with all these native-new-cultures things.
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics As a ESL student, I learned a lot information to teach young students to read, pronounce letters and words. “English is an alphabetic language, and children learn crack this code as they learn about phonemes (sound), graphemes (letters), and graph phonemic (letter-sound) relationship (Tompkins, p.103). My first language`s letters sounds never changed, but in English it changes when different letters come together for example “sh”, “ch” and words are cat and cent. When you read these word, sound is changing first letter of words even same letter.
TITLE: Each student should learn foreign language. GENERAL PURPOSE: To persuade SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade people that each of student should learn foreign language MAIN IDEA: - learning foreign language enhance communication skills. - learning foreign language enhance job and career opportunities.
If anything, it would be a bad thing to change the ancient Chinese writing because if you were to change the writing than all of that ancient history written in the Ancient Calligraphy would be lost. Calligraphy has been a form of writing for many different cultures throughout the world, but Chinese calligraphy is unmatchable. From a very early period in their history, Chinese calligraphy was not seen as a form of just decorative art, instead, it was viewed as the supreme visual art form. The very first Chinese writings are the inscriptions on the “Oracle-bones.” There are a number of factors that lead to calligraphy gaining this position of power, such as the materials used in calligraphy and the nature of writing Chinese Calligraphy.”
Although this huge population not really share same dialects or language, but in general we could still have a harmonious relationship between different ethnic groups. Doubtless, Han is the main population in China, however, it does not mean that only Han culture is important, in opposite, a variety of dialects could be also a tool to maintain this harmonious condition and to keep different areas’ local culture which constructed our nation 's’ diversity. Dialect is an expression in cultural heritage, it carries regional culture, cultural characteristics of the area it is also the root of the folk culture. Therefore, government agencies and linguists should take active and effective measures to rescue endangered dialects and protect them so that they can inherit regional culture and promote social stability at the same time. Dialect should be cherished and protected, it constructed our beloved