Journal ArticleGlobal Chinese · April 1, 2023
In the pre-modern era, women in the Chaoshan region of southeastern China had a tradition of learning and performing long narrative songs. From the mid-1800s into the mid-1900s these songs were widely produced by local publishing houses in inexpensive wood ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
This chapter investigates why Cantonese language textbooks published in the Chinese mainland make such liberal use of written Cantonese - i.e. Cantonese written in Chinese characters - despite the fact that in the mainland written Cantonese is rarely encou ...
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Chapter · October 7, 2020
This chapter analyzes the promotion of written vernaculars in southeastern China by Western missionaries during the late nineteenth century. For example, in the city of Xiamen, the missionaries' ideological support of vernacular literacy was translated int ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Chinese · September 1, 2018
The recent publication of the novel Magnificent Flowers (Fan Hua) has attracted attention not only because of critical acclaim and market success, but also because of its use of Shanghainese. While Magnificent Flowers is the most notable recent book to mak ...
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Chapter · April 10, 2018
This volume presents in-depth studies on leading themes in education policy and intercultural communication in contemporary Asia, covering empirical as well as theoretical approaches, and offering both an in-depth investigation of their ... ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Chinese · April 1, 2018
In two articles published in the 1920s, Hu Shi argued that China's vernacular literature movement should encompass not only literature written in Mandarin but also other regional languages in China, and suggested that Wu, particularly Suzhounese, was the r ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
When intercultural communication skills are taught in foreign language courses, three high priority factors to address are (1) ethnocentrism, (2) stereotyping, and (3) ingroup bias. These factors are important to understand not only because they can bias i ...
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Chapter · September 8, 2017
However, we should also recognize that when learners' ILL efforts focus on
passing a test, making choices about ... times saw these other ILL strategies as
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Book · 2017
Revised and updated with new research findings and suggestions for utilitizing current technology and media tools, this text is also accompanied by a website that is packed with hundreds of activity ideas and links to additonal teaching and ... ...
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Journal ArticleLanguage and Intercultural Communication · April 3, 2015
Critical incident exercises (CIEs) are increasingly used in English courses, and there seems little doubt that in addition to providing English practice opportunities CIEs also help learners build intercultural competence. The question is: What precise asp ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Chinese · January 1, 2015
From the 1870s into the 1920s, Baptist and Presbyterian missionaries in the Chaoshan region devoted a substantial amount of time and effort to creating a body of Christian texts in written forms of Chaoshanese, and also educating Chinese Christians in this ...
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Chapter · February 15, 2013
This book explores the possible role and impact of teachers’ and students’ faith in the English language classroom. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Asian Pacific Communication · January 22, 2010
This article examines the most extensive case of diglossia in history, that of diglossia in East Asia. In pre-modern times, Classical Chinese functioned as the high (H) language variety in not only China, but also Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and thi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Asian Pacific Communication · July 31, 2008
“Standard language” status is a relative construct defined by a variety of attributes rather than by any single criteria. This paper uses the taxonomy of standard language attributes presented in Downes 1998 as a framework for examining the degree ...
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Book · October 1, 2004
In the early twentieth century these dialect texts were joined by Cantonese opera scripts, published as popular reading material. ...
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