LINGUIST List 25.2844
Mon
Jul 07 2014
Confs: Applied Ling,
Lang Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, General
Ling/China
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Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 07-Jul-2014
From: Marjoleine Sloos
<marj.sloos
gmail.com>
Subject: Chinese and Germanic
Languages: Second Language Acquisition and
Perception
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Chinese and Germanic Languages: Second Language
Acquisition and Perception
Date: 09-Oct-2014 - 10-Oct-2014
Location: Shanghai, China
Contact: Marjoleine Sloos
Contact Email:
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Meeting URL:
http://marjoleinesloos.yolasite.com/workshop-shanghai-2014.php
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics;
General Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Phonetics; Phonology
Meeting Description:
The current fast developments in China have led
to an increase of the number of Chinese
learners of English and other European
languages as well as an increase of speakers of
European languages learning Chinese. This
emerging interest in learning and teaching
Chinese all over the world has increased the
demand for qualified research to support
teaching of Chinese as a second language. For
instance, in recent years, we have witnessed a
significant increase of university students who
study Chinese, and initiatives have been
started to teach Chinese at secondary schools.
Since Chinese and European languages greatly
differ in their consonants, vowels, and
prosody—let alone their different writing
systems—second language acquisition into either
direction is a difficult task.
Although there is a vast amount of literature
on Chinese-accented English (discussing, for
instance, typical Chinese pronunciations of
English, including wrong stress placement),
research on Chinese accent in other languages
lags far behind. Similarly, foreign accented
Chinese is hardly linguistically investigated.
For example, Danish-accented Chinese has never
been explored as a field of study. In addition,
even for English, a thorough investigation of
teachers' perception of the pronunciation of
their students is still lacking.
This workshop is meant to investigate the
state-of-the-art of second language acquisition
in which Chinese is either the first language
(L1) or the second language (L2) and to
consider new lines of research.
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