Corpus-Based Learning of Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review
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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | CALL Design: Principles and Practice |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 2014 EUROCALL Conference, |
| Editors | Sake Jager, Linda Bradley, Estelle J. Meima, Sylvie Thouësny |
| Publisher | Research-publishing.net |
| Pages | 196-201 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-1-908416-20-9, 978-1-908416-21-6 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-1-908416-19-3 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2014 |
Conference
| Title | CALL Design: Principles and Practice: Proceedings of the 2014 EUROCALL |
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| Place | Netherlands |
| City | Groningen |
| Period | 20 - 23 August 2014 |
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| DOI | DOI |
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| Permanent Link | https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/publications/publication(83fe0ce3-beda-40ea-84ea-b81cd71a625c).html |
Abstract
This paper reports our experience in using a parallel corpus to teach Cantonese, a variety of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong, as a second language. The parallel corpus consists of pairs of word-aligned sentences in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, drawn from television programs in Hong Kong (Lee, 2011). We evaluated our pedagogical approach with Mandarin-speaking students at a university course. For each student, we first diagnosed the set of Cantonese words with which s/he experienced difficulties. Then, on a web-based interface, the student independently searched in the parallel corpus for sentence pairs involving this set of Cantonese words, and analysed the translations and usage examples. Our experiments showed that, in both the short- and long-term, the corpus-based pedagogical method helped students better retain their knowledge of difficult Cantonese words.
Research Area(s)
- parallel corpus , Mandarin, Cantonese, language acquisition
Citation Format(s)
Corpus-Based Learning of Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers. / Lee, John; Wong, Tak-Sum.
CALL Design: Principles and Practice: Proceedings of the 2014 EUROCALL Conference,. ed. / Sake Jager; Linda Bradley; Estelle J. Meima; Sylvie Thouësny. Research-publishing.net, 2014. p. 196-201.
CALL Design: Principles and Practice: Proceedings of the 2014 EUROCALL Conference,. ed. / Sake Jager; Linda Bradley; Estelle J. Meima; Sylvie Thouësny. Research-publishing.net, 2014. p. 196-201.
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review
