Sökning: "Chinese learners of English"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 21 uppsatser innehållade orden Chinese learners of English.

  1. 11. Investigating Chinese English Majors’ Use of Reading Strategies : A Study on the Relationship between Reading Strategies and Reading Achievements 

    Magister-uppsats, Sektionen för Lärarutbildning

    Författare :Ling Sun; [2011]
    Nyckelord :metacognitive reading strategies; cognitive reading strategies; reading achievements;

    Sammanfattning : For several decades, reading strategies have aroused many researchers’ interest.Readingis a very important language skill for English learners; however, many English majors feel that their reading proficiency is far from satisfying though they have studied English for more than ten years. LÄS MER

  2. 12. Measuring the Impact of Cultural Context on Chinese ESL University Learners’ Comprehension and Memorization of Figurative Idioms

    Magister-uppsats, Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Författare :Zhou ChunKe; [2011]
    Nyckelord :figurative idiom; culture; cultural context;

    Sammanfattning : This paper primarily focuses on the description of the results of a study conducted on ten Chinese university students ESL learners to investigate  whether or not cultural context has a significant impact on university students’ ability to remember and understand English figurative idioms as part of English as a Second Language instruction in China. Since Idiom  is a kind of language block which concord rich cultural elements and the figurative idiom whose meaning cannot be easy inferred by the usual meaning of its constituent elements, so the present study was based on the relationship between culture and language, the origins of the idioms and their cultural connotations. LÄS MER

  3. 13. On the effectiveness of writing strategies in promoting 13-15 years old Chinese ESL learners' writing ability

    Magister-uppsats, Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Författare :Gao Peng; [2011]
    Nyckelord :writing strategies; effectiveness; ESL learners;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of writing strategies in promoting 13-15 years old Chinese ESL learners’ writing ability. Two writing strategies I selected in this study are Julia's (in James 2000) 8-step writing strategy and Englert's (1991) POWER strategy. LÄS MER

  4. 14. Communicative Strategies in Second Language Acquisition : A Study of Chinese English Learners’ Attitude and Reported Frequency of Communicative Strategies

    Magister-uppsats, Sektionen för Lärarutbildning

    Författare :Wei Lin; [2011]
    Nyckelord :Communicative strategies; SLA; Attitude; Reported frequency;

    Sammanfattning : Communicative strategies not only play an important role in communication but they also contribute to second language acquisition. Communicative strategies (CS) can help to keep the communication channel open, encourage hypothesis formation and automatization. LÄS MER

  5. 15. Efficient reading in standardized tests for EFL learners : a case study of reading strategies used by Chinese English major students in TEM-4

    Magister-uppsats, Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Författare :Yan Xia; [2011]
    Nyckelord :reading strategy; efficient reading; TEM-4;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to investigate the reading strategies used by Chinese English major students in the reading component in standardized national tests of TEM-4 with regard to reading efficiency. The research questions include: 1) what strategies are used by the students in TEM-4 test context; 2) whether there is a significant correlation between strategy use and efficient reading in the test; 3) what kinds of reading problems are revealed in the students’ use of processing strategies; 4) what can teachers do to promote efficient reading in classrooms. LÄS MER