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The Roles of Ryukyuan–Chinese tsūji in Early Eighteenth-Century Ryukyu
This chapter presents a case study on a Ryukyuan–Chinese tsūji (interpreter) and depicts multiple roles of tsūji in the Early Modern Ryukyu Kingdom....
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Teacher Training in the Field of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in the United States
This chapter deals with teacher training in the field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language in the United States. It starts with a summary and...
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World Englishes and the Second Language Classroom: Why Introducing Varieties of English Is Important and How Corpora Can Help
Due to colonization and globalization, the English language has spread around the globe like no other language before. A multitude of different...
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Language Programs at Rochester Institute of Technology: A Successful Recent Initiative (2018-Present)
RIT offers undergraduate immersions and minors in 10 languages including Arabic, ASL, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese,...
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Bidirectional longitudinal relationship between chinese children’s compounding awareness and idiom comprehension among from grades 3 to 5
Children’s idiom comprehension is an important aspect of language development. Idioms have both literal and figurative meanings, and there are often...
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The Hierarchical Ordering of Languages and Language Ideologies
While Chapter 2 reviews the international student mobility (ISM) literature, this chapter turns the spotlight on...
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Language Negotiation
Language matters to ICs. Successful communication is the key to a happy relationship. The more diverse the linguistic and cultural repertoire of a...
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A Generic Study of Linguistic Information Based on the Chinese Idiom Knowledge Base and Its Expansion
The Chinese language is rich in set phrases and idiomatic expressions of various types. By definition, a set phrase is an inclusive concept that...
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Language Rights and the Law in Sweden
This chapter studies the ways in which Sweden addresses the language rights of the Swedish-speaking majority vis-à-vis linguistic minorities. First,...
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Behind the Screen: Lessons Learnt from a Chinese Emergency Remote Teaching Experience in Czech Republic
This study identifies the challenges and positive outcomes from a temporary shift in a Chinese language class to remote delivery format during the...
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Chinese Linguistics: Striving to Keep Pace with the World
(On June 4, 2003 China Reading Weekly published the text of a speech at the Tsinghua University Linguistics Symposium “Linguistic Research in China:...
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Paradox in Resources for 中文 (Zhōngwén/Chinese) Education
This chapter examines the 中文 (Zhōngwén/Chinese) teachers’ linguistic resourcing practices in their classes in Australia since linguistic resources...
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Relationships of writing self-efficacy, perceived value of writing, and writing apprehension to writing performance among Chinese children
The relationship among three writing motivation and affective constructs (writing self-efficacy, perceived value of writing, and writing...
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Visual-orthographic skills predict the covariance of Chinese word reading and arithmetic calculation
This study provides evidence connecting two aspects of visual-orthographic skills (orthographic awareness and delayed copying) to the common variance...
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Real and Hypocrisy: The “Moral Turn” in Chinese Hip Hop Music
The Rap of China in 2017 has set off a wave of Hip Hop music in China, but the unexpected “Hip Hop ban” in 2018 arouses concerns about China’s...
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Foreign Language Education in the Southern Caribbean: An Overview
This chapter provides an overview of foreign/second language learning and teaching research and innovation in the Southern Caribbean region. A brief...
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Vocabulary Teaching and Learning Strategies
Disclaimer: The summaries in this chapter were generated from Springer Nature publications using extractive AI auto-summarization: An...
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Enhancing students’ classical Chinese reading through a two-year flipped self-regulated learning intervention program
This study investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of using a flipped classroom (FC) approach to combine self-regulated learning (SRL)...
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Virtual Peer Mentoring for Language Teacher Professional Development: A Framework Towards the Aotearoa/New Zealand Context
This chapter investigates how a virtual peer mentoring (VPM) programme can be effectively designed to enhance language teacher professional...
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Online Mandarin Language Teaching and Learning During COVID-19 Pandemic at University of Mauritius in Africa
Following the outbreak of COVID-19 on March 18, 2020 in Mauritius, the Confucius Institute at University of Mauritius (CI-UoM) has shifted all...