Learning disability has become one of the most serious afflictions of childhood in the United States. Approximately 6 to 15 percent of American children have difficulty in learning how to read. In contrast, educators and other professionals in China and Japan report that dyslexia is rather rare in their countries except in cases where there is a…

This survey was contracted for by the Bay Area Social Planning Council (BASPC) with funding from a Rosenberg Foundation Grant. Questionnaire responses obtained from 255 youths were analyzed to provide the Study Committee on Chinese Newcomers with information about Chinese immigrant youth. Following acquisition, the data was said to have been…

Description begins with remarks concerning the Institute of Far Eastern Languages, established in 1946, and the early efforts made in intensive language study in the Chinese Language School. The article describes the unique audiovisual materials and techniques used in the schools. Included in the description are: (1) dictation equipment, (2)…

The materials in this curriculum guide were designed to prepare teachers and students in grades 2-11 for the "Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China's Imperial Palace 1644-1911" exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California Education Department, to inform teachers and students about Imperial China, and to illuminate…

A study investigated how balanced and pseudo-bilingual students, all second-generation Chinese-Americans, develop and maintain their native language while learning English. Subjects were 12 fifth-graders attending a Saturday Chinese language school, six of whom (3 boys, 3 girls) were balanced bilinguals and six of whom (3 boys, 3 girls) were…

Discusses four fields of education in Chinese culture during the time of Confucius: (1) morals, (2) law, (3) politics, and (4) music. Identifies three traditional Chinese music types: (1) refined, (2) popular, and (3) foreign. States music was used to promote social harmony, reinforce nationalist views and actions, and shape attitudes and beliefs…

Highlights particular assumptions and biases that underlie Western approaches to counseling and offers guidelines to revising these assumptions in counseling Chinese clients. Differences in communication styles, interdependence, family relations, and community are related to varied expressions of presenting symptomatology and to communication…

Reviews the research comparing the social and behavioral characteristics of only children and children with siblings in China. Results are mixed, and many of the studies are seen as having methodological flaws. (BB)

The effects of income, language, and citizenship on the use of health-care services by Chinese Americans is examined (N=1808). Focus groups, a telephone survey, and key informant interviews were conducted. Data analysis included an acculturation index, demographic profile, and logistical regression. Health insurance and social factors are…

An inquiry into the internal structure of infl has led to the view in the generative grammar that universally the head of the I(nfl)P(hrase) is decompositional in that a series of functional categories can be located there, e.g. T(ense)P(hrase), Agr(eement)P(hrase), Neg(ation)P(hrase), Asp(ect)P(hrase), etc.; each of these categories projects its…

Discusses the cultural features of "Spring" and "Autumn" in Chinese. Their meanings range from references to happiness and love to seasons, crops and farming, to the representation of a year's time and one's age. They are used in poetry and as noun compounds for titles of history books. (SC)

John Thomson was a nineteenth-century British photojournalist who used the wet-plate process to illustrate his explorations of eastern and Southeast Asia. His travels from 1862 to 1872 took him to the following places, among others: Ceylon, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Saigon, Siam, mainland China, and Taiwan. Thomson chose to use the wet-plate…

A survey of common daily expressions in use in the People's Republic of China (PRC) was conducted during the summer of 1979. It was considered a preliminary attempt towards solving the problem of inadequate teaching material for the study of Chinese. A questionnaire was developed and administered to more than 200 individuals. One hundred…

This book, compiled by six practicing teachers of Chinese, is designed to provide supplementary work for regular textbooks such as "Speak Chinese,""Speak Mandarin," and "Modern Chinese," and hopefully to help the teacher to avoid the monotony and boredom of much drill practice by providing a greater variety of material for drill purposes. It…

This paper describes work that has been completed to date on a course in Cantonese for students who already have some knowledge of Mandarin. Among the topics discussed are the principles on which the course is to be based, the method of data collections, and the organization of the materials that have been so far produced. Specimens of the latter…