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- Provides readers with an overview of Mandarin competence among Chinese-English bilinguals, rarely covered in past literature
- Illustrates a complex interplay between home-language exposure and language competence in a three-dimensional continuum
- Encapsulates the complex variation of Mandarin competence and exposure displayed by children of different home language backgrounds in Singapore
- Highlights certain linguistic features of children from different home language backgrounds that call for pedagogical and curricular attention
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Hock Huan Goh
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mandarin Competence of Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers
Book Subtitle: A Corpus-based Analysis of Singaporean Children’s Speech
Authors: Hock Huan Goh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2225-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2223-4Published: 02 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9565-8Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2225-8Published: 03 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Chinese