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Linguistic and cultural impacts on English medium instruction : Chinese teacher-researchers’ cases
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A quantitative study of regional variations in Australian English
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Tongue positions corresponding to formant values in Australian English vowels
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An investigation of a pedagogical framework of Chinese character teaching for beginning learners in Australian schools : an action research
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Indigenous languages recorded as part of the Queensland Speech Survey
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Connecting Australian students' prior knowledge with their foreign language learning : a beginning Mandarin teacher's exploration of strategies through language transfer
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With the growing influence of China on the world economy, the learning of its official language, Mandarin, has become increasingly important in Australia. However, Mandarin is regarded as a difficult language for speakers of an Indo-European language, given the fact that it belongs to a different language system. To make Mandarin learnable and lower the cost of learning Mandarin for students in the Western Sydney Region (WSR) schools, this research explores the impact of language transfer on Australian non-Chinese-background students’ Mandarin learning from the perspective of a beginning teacher. A qualitative case study was conducted in a local school in the WSR. Data were collected from observation of the teacher researcher’s own Mandarin classes and her reflective journals. The data shed light upon how language transfer influences Mandarin learning in the perspectives of phonology, morph-syntax, and pragmatics. The major finding of the research is when the implementation of language transfer was constructed on teachers’ correct subject matter knowledge and students’ prior knowledge, the outcome of the learning experience was likely to be satisfactory. Otherwise, it led to students’ confusion and frustration. The conclusion of the research mainly includes two parts. First, the effectiveness of language transfer largely depends on teachers’ understanding of the learner and the subject matter. Second, including both Mandarin and English in teachers’ talk contributes to a TL-input rich and accessible learning experience.
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2014; Australia; Chinese language; English speakers; Mandarin dialects; second language acquisition; study and teaching; Thesis (M.Ed. (Hons.))--University of Western Sydney; Western Sydney (N.S.W.)
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URL: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:29763
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Criteria for teaching/learning resource selection : facilitating teachers of Chinese to work with English-speaking learners
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Popular culture and engagement in teaching Mandarin : an action research project
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Categorizing Mandarin tones into listeners' native prosodic categories : the role of phonetic properties
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Exploring the funds of knowledge in the Chinese community in Australia for Mandarin teaching and learning in schools
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A Chinese beginning teacher's professional identity transformation : an auto-ethnographic study
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The role of L2 vocabulary expansion in the perception and production of Australian English vowels by adult native speakers of Japanese
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Multimodal perception of Mandarin tone for cochlear implant users
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Early forms of Aboriginal English in South Australia, 1840--1920s
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Pretending to be someone you're not : a study of second dialect acquisition in Australia
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English as an Aboriginal language in Southeast Queensland
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Eades, Diana. - : The University of Queensland, School of Social Science, 1983
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Australian aboriginal narratives in English : a study in discourse analysis
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Muecke, Stephen. - : University of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, 1981
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