Mandarin competence of Chinese-English bilingual preschoolers : a corpus-based analysis of Singaporean children's speech

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Label

Mandarin competence of Chinese-English bilingual preschoolers : a corpus-based analysis of Singaporean children's speech

Title remainder

a corpus-based analysis of Singaporean children's speech

Statement of responsibility

Hock Huan Goh

Creator

• Goh, Hock Huan

Author

• Goh, Hock Huan

Subject

• Bilingualism in children -- Singapore
• Singapore
• Singapore

Language

eng

Summary

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 that there are statistical differences in lexical diversity and syntactic complexity among the compared groups of children, and these differences in linguistic competence were found to be positively correlated to increased Mandarin exposure at home. They also demonstrate that there are statistical differences in code-switching tendency among the groups of children compared, which were found to be negatively correlated to increased exposure to Mandarin at home. A general relationship between home language exposure and Mandarin competence was established, although this relationship was found to be volatile, especially among children who are more bilingually exposed. This book shares these findings with linguists, language educators, and language policymakers, both local and international

Cataloging source

IDEBK

Dewey number

370

Index

no index present

LC call number

L1-991

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries