Perfective -<i>le</i> Use and Consciousness-Raising among Beginner-Level Chinese Learners
Within the framework of explicit learning and consciousness-raising, this study investigates patterns in the use of -<i>le</i> in authentic classroom tasks by beginner-level learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). It also explores the role and the processes of student-centered c...
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| description | Within the framework of explicit learning and consciousness-raising, this study investigates patterns in the use of -<i>le</i> in authentic classroom tasks by beginner-level learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). It also explores the role and the processes of student-centered consciousness-raising in explicit knowledge building. Twenty-five participants completed a grammaticality judgment task, an interactive role-play task, and a written editing task. The experiment group received role-play sheets with explicit forms of -<i>le</i> provided, and participants engaged in rule induction of -<i>le</i> in forbidden context in the role-play session. Results showed that beginner-level learners’ difficulty with -<i>le</i> use manifested in different ways in these tasks, and -<i>le</i> underuse occurred more than overuse in the control group’s oral role-play task. Consciousness-raising through unguided small group rule induction supported participants’ learning of -<i>le</i> usage constraints, shown by differences between the control and experiment groups’ performances in the posttest. Through a qualitative analysis of participants’ analytical talk transcripts, the processes and outcomes of small group rule induction are examined and discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-315c64013e2948d89f03ab0b84e6e0e32023-11-19T21:59:41ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2020-04-01521610.3390/languages5020016Perfective -<i>le</i> Use and Consciousness-Raising among Beginner-Level Chinese LearnersYi Xu0Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USAWithin the framework of explicit learning and consciousness-raising, this study investigates patterns in the use of -<i>le</i> in authentic classroom tasks by beginner-level learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). It also explores the role and the processes of student-centered consciousness-raising in explicit knowledge building. Twenty-five participants completed a grammaticality judgment task, an interactive role-play task, and a written editing task. The experiment group received role-play sheets with explicit forms of -<i>le</i> provided, and participants engaged in rule induction of -<i>le</i> in forbidden context in the role-play session. Results showed that beginner-level learners’ difficulty with -<i>le</i> use manifested in different ways in these tasks, and -<i>le</i> underuse occurred more than overuse in the control group’s oral role-play task. Consciousness-raising through unguided small group rule induction supported participants’ learning of -<i>le</i> usage constraints, shown by differences between the control and experiment groups’ performances in the posttest. Through a qualitative analysis of participants’ analytical talk transcripts, the processes and outcomes of small group rule induction are examined and discussed.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/5/2/16Chinese as a foreign languageconsciousness-raisingobligatory and forbidden contextsperfective aspect markerrule induction |
| spellingShingle | Yi Xu Perfective -<i>le</i> Use and Consciousness-Raising among Beginner-Level Chinese Learners Languages Chinese as a foreign language consciousness-raising obligatory and forbidden contexts perfective aspect marker rule induction |
| title | Perfective -<i>le</i> Use and Consciousness-Raising among Beginner-Level Chinese Learners |
| title_full | Perfective -<i>le</i> Use and Consciousness-Raising among Beginner-Level Chinese Learners |
| title_fullStr | Perfective -<i>le</i> Use and Consciousness-Raising among Beginner-Level Chinese Learners |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perfective -<i>le</i> Use and Consciousness-Raising among Beginner-Level Chinese Learners |
| title_short | Perfective -<i>le</i> Use and Consciousness-Raising among Beginner-Level Chinese Learners |
| title_sort | perfective i le i use and consciousness raising among beginner level chinese learners |
| topic | Chinese as a foreign language consciousness-raising obligatory and forbidden contexts perfective aspect marker rule induction |
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