Mandarin Competence of Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers A Corpus-based Analysis of Singaporean Children’s Speech /

• Main Author: Goh, Hock Huan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Chinese language.; Language and education.; Language Education.; Chinese.

This book provides readers with a detailed sketch of the Mandarin competence of Chinese children in Singapore from different home language backgrounds. Their Mandarin competence is defined in terms of lexical diversity, syntactic complexity and code-switching tendency. The findings presented show th...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Review of Literature
• 3 Theoretical Perspectives and Analytical Framework
• 4 Research Methodology
• 5 Mandarin Competences Measured by Lexical Diversity
• 6 Mandarin Competence Measured by Syntactic Complexity
• 7 Mandarin Competence Measured by Code-Switching Tendency
• 8 Conclusions and Implications.