1. CHINESE L1 ENGLISH
LEARNERS
A CROSSLINGUISTIC STUDY
C H R I S T Y G A N C H E R O
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2. OVERVIEW
• Introduction
• Phonology Research
• Morphology and Syntax Research
• Pragmatic and Social Research
• Discussion and Future Research
• Conclusion
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3. INTRODUCTION
• Importance of this topic:
– China’s population and the need for English teachers
• Crosslinguistics and Interlanguage
• Interconnectedness of age, socioeconomics,
motivation
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4. PHONOLOGY RESEARCH
• Eckman, F. R. (2004). From phonemic differences to constraint rankings: Research on
second language phonology.
• Dixon, L. Quentin, Chuang, Hui-Kai, and Quiroz, Blanca (2012). English phonological
awareness in bilinguals: A cross-linguistic study of Tamil, Malay and Chinese English-
language learners. Journal of Research in Reading, 35(4), 372–392.
• Leong, Che Kan, Cheng, Pui Wan, and Tan, Li Hai (2005). “The role of sensitivity to
rhymes, phonemes and tones in reading English and Chinese pseudowords. Reading and
Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 18(1), 1-26.
• McDowell, Heather J., & Lorch, Marjorie Perlman (2008). Awareness in Chinese L1 readers
of English: Not simply and effect of orthography. TESOL Quarterly, 42(3), 495-513.
• Rau, D. Victoria, Chang, Hui-Huan Ann, and Tarone, Elaine E. (2009). Think or sink:
Chinese learners’ acquisition of the English voiceless interdental fricative. Language
Learning, 59(3), 581-621.
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5. MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX RESEARCH
• Pierce, Lara J., Genesee, Fred and Paradis, Johanne (2013). Acquisition of English
grammatical morphology by internationally adopted children from China. Journal of
Child Language, 40 (5), 1076-1090.
• Lu, Xiaofei (2011). A corpus-based evaluation of syntactic complexity measures as
indices of college-level ESL writers' language development. TESOL Quarterly, 45 (1), 36-
62.
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6. RESEARCH ON PRAGMATIC AND SOCIAL
DIMENSIONS
• Chang, Yuh-fang (2011). Refusing in a foreign language: An investigation of problems
encountered by Chinese learners of English. Multilingua, 30(1), 71-98.
• He, An E (2011). Possibility of crosslingual transfer: A comparative study of Chinese (L1)
and English (L2) lessons. The Modern Language Journal, 95 (supplementary issue), 64-
80.
• Yu, M.-C (2004). Interlinguistic variation and similarity in second language speech act
behavior. The Modern Language Journal, 88(1), 102-119.
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7. DISCUSSION
• How important is pronunciation?
– World Englishes
• Syntax/Morphology research and “Big Data”
– Future of corpus research
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Future
Technology
Corpus
Research
Big Data

8. CONCLUSION
• Phonology Research
• Morphology and Syntax Research
• Pragmatic and Social Research
• Discussion and Future Research
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9. ANY QUESTIONS?
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10. THANK YOU!
C H R I S T Y G A N C H E R O
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