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Lai, Wen-Feng; Chen, Yen-Yu – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of age and family socioeconomic status (SES) on the evaluative language performance of Mandarin-Chinese-speaking young children and their mothers. The participants were 65 mother-child dyads recruited in Taiwan. Thirty-four of these dyads were from middle-class families and 31 were from…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mandarin Chinese, Working Class, Mothers
Kuo, Li-feng – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Much research on requests has been carried out among L1 Chinese adults, L1 Chinese children, L1 children, L2 adults, and L2 children, but no studies to date have simultaneously examined Chinese children's requests in Chinese (L1) and English (L2). The aim of this study is to investigate how Taiwanese elementary school children vary requests…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Pragmatics