LINGUIST List 21.3552 Mon Sep 06 2010 Qs: Call for Participants: Research on Chinese Idioms Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Shu Pin Nall, Call for Participants: Research on Chinese Idioms Message 1: Call for Participants: Research on Chinese Idioms Date: 03-Sep-2010 From: Shu Pin Nall <shu_ping_nallhotmail.com> Subject: Call for Participants: Research on Chinese Idioms E-mail this message to a friend Dear Friends, My wife and I are working on a research paper that tries to discover ways to help non-native Chinese speakers learn Chinese idioms (specifically, idioms containing numbers) in more effective ways. We are inviting people to participate in this study, which only requires guessing (yes, simply guessing) the answers to 50 questions. Basically, we are asking the participants to do the following three things: (1) Play a guessing game: 50 multiple choice questions. There will be four possible answers for each idiom. You can choose the answer you think might best describe the idiom... (might take about 10 ~ 15 minutes). (2) Watch a PowerPoint presentation (or word document explanation) on how Chinese number idioms work (might take about 15 ~ 20 minutes) (3) Play the exact same guessing game again (might take about 10 ~ 15 minutes). Basically, we will compare the result of the first and the last guessing game and see if the PowerPoint presentation explanation helps the participants guess the meanings with a higher accuracy rate. We are interested in finding out whether a specific method of teaching Chinese number idioms makes it easier for people to learn Chinese number idioms. However, you don’t need to worry about that. The only things you’ll do are steps 1 to 3 above. Your participation in this study will help our research very much! To participate, participants do not have to know any Chinese (and may not ever plan to learn Chinese) or may have learned some Chinese previously. If you would be interested in participating in this study, please feel free to email us at: shu_ping_nallhotmail.com If you know any students or anyone else who might help out, please forward this to them. Thank you so much and we appreciate your time and trouble! Sincerely, Tim & Shu Pin Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.