Hasil untuk "Chinese language and literature"

Chen Min Jie, Wong Wei Lun, Warid Mihat

Recognising the importance of phonics in early English literacy development, the National English Curriculum of mainland China incorporated it in 2011. Prior literature indicates potential gaps in the phonics instructional knowledge of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers, potentially stemming from the absence of dedicated pre-service training resources. To effectively address this potential knowledge gap, a comprehensive needs assessment is crucial. This study aimed to investigate the subject matter content knowledge needs of mainland Chinese pre-service EFL teachers regarding phonics instruction. Data were collected from 172 pre-service EFL teachers at a teachers’ college in Sichuan Province, China, using a test and a survey. These instruments explored the participants’ objectives and desired changes in phonics learning and instruction across seven dimensions. The results indicated that phonics general knowledge, decoding rules, and instructional strategies were the most preferred areas of need among the pre-service teachers. These findings underscore the urgent need for a targeted instructional guide to enhance the phonics knowledge of pre-service EFL teachers, ultimately contributing to more effective early English literacy instruction.

Shishuang Zhou, Huiyuan Li, Yuan Yang et al.

Abstract Background The increasingly rising incidence of cancer among children and adolescents has led to notable psychological challenges for this population. Art therapy, classified within the realm of complementary and alternative medicine interventions and psychotherapy, demonstrates promising potential psychological benefits for children and adolescents. Therefore, a systematic review was conducted to determine the effects of art therapy on improving psychological outcomes among patients with pediatric cancer and identify the details of art therapy. Method A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted. Ten English language databases, two Chinese databases, and grey literature were searched. Two researchers independently conducted study selection, quality assessment and data extraction. The Generic inverse variance method with random-effects models was applied to do meta-analysis. Results Three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and five quasi-experimental studies with acceptable quality involving 452 participants from five countries were included. Our meta-analysis revealed statistically significant improvement in anxiety, depression among pediatric cancer patients. Narrative findings suggested art therapy could improve the overall psychological symptoms, stress, and anger. Conclusion Art therapy can positively improve psychological outcomes, particularly anxiety and depression. However, the evidence is weakened by limited studies and methodological heterogeneity. Additional high-quality RCTs with large samples are warranted to confirm and supplement the existing evidence. Trial registration This review was registered in PROSPERO with ID CRD42023477700 on 11 November 2023.

Yulu Li, Junhua Gan, Tongquan Zhou et al.

Abstract Social hierarchy as a social ranking system is conveyed verbally, nonverbally, or conjointly in communication. From a linguistic perspective, hierarchy concept is encoded via words, hierarchical or non-hierarchical when it is embedded in different contexts. However, few studies have explored how hierarchy is represented in the mental lexicon and processed neurocognitively. Backgrounded by this situation, we conducted two ERP experiments to investigate whether social hierarchy can be subcategorized into implicit and explicit forms and whether a word’s social hierarchy is processed similarly to its semantic knowledge relating to Who Does Whom neurologically. Experiment 1 compared the processing of three types of Chinese verbs with different degree of hierarchy (strong hierarchical verbs; weak hierarchical verbs; non-hierarchical verbs) in SVO sentences. Experiment 2 examined whether the dichotomy of hierarchical verbs was modulated by context type (neutral context or biased context) in processing. The results revealed three major findings: First, strong hierarchical verbs relative to non-hierarchical verbs elicited greater posterior-P600 at the verb and AN at the noun position; Second, weak hierarchical verbs relative to strong hierarchical verbs elicited enhanced AN and posterior-P600 effects at the verb and noun positions, while as compared to non-hierarchical verbs, weak hierarchical verbs elicited stronger P600 and AN effect at the verb and noun positions, respectively; Third, this hierarchy difference was much affected by context type. Specifically, in biased contexts, weak hierarchical verbs and strong hierarchical verbs became indistinguishable, while in neutral contexts, strong hierarchical verbs sentences were harder to process than weak hierarchical verbs, as indicated by the larger P600 effect at the verb position. These findings converge to suggest a unique neurocognitive mechanism underlying the processing of Chinese social hierarchy verbs and highlight the concept that a word’s social hierarchy is distinct from its lexical semantics. This study provides insights into how social hierarchy is decoded in language comprehension and offers implications for future research on linguistic structures and social cognition.

Zihan Feng

Despite its widespread popularity, blog writing in China has received limited scholarly attention, particularly regarding its impact on reconceptualizing subjectivity. This article examines the rise of blogging platforms for diary writing in 2000s China, claiming that this nascent writing condition has reshaped how Chinese bloggers articulate their sense of self in the digital era. Analyzing online diaries written by the popular blogger and “healing-style” writer Anthony (安东尼), this paper demonstrates that the graphical user interface(GUI) design of blogging sites reconfigures expressions of subjectivities online as not only modularized but also companionate. First, the paper contextualizes Anthony’s writings within the technological condition of early 2000s Chinese blogging platforms, where GUI designs instruct users to customize personal spaces through modular components. Anthony’s writing style, which uses spaces to replace punctuation marks and demarcate word phrases, resonates with this spatially modularized mode of online self-expression textually. Moreover, this modularized perception of internal space extends to his descriptions of living in different home environments, often portrayed as spheres easily customizable for an individual’s online media activities. These descriptions establish a reproducible “personalized” lifestyle of solitary living. The paper then explores the companionate effect of Anthony’s unpunctuated writing, highlighting that besides manifesting casual chatting common in Chinese-language online communications, the plentiful space and lack of punctuation also reduce affective tensions in narratives. Last, the paper discusses that print collections of Anthony’s writings embody modularization, mass personalization, and companionship in his online works through their serialized designs and physicality.

Mohamed AA, Tan JK, Tan MM et al.

Aminath Afaa Mohamed,1,2 Juen Kiem Tan,1,2 Michelle Maryanne Tan,3 Ching Soong Khoo,1,2 Wan Nur Nafisah Wan Yahya,1,2 Muhammad Samir Haziq Abd Rahman,2 Rosnah Sutan,2,4 Hui Jan Tan1,2 1Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 56000, Malaysia; 2Department of Medicine, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, 56000, Malaysia; 3Department of Medicine, Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang, 41200, Malaysia; 4Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 56000, MalaysiaCorrespondence: Hui Jan Tan, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Email tanhuijan@gmail.com; tanhuijan@ukm.edu.myPurpose: Stroke is the second leading cause of global deaths. Post-stroke seizures (PSS) can lead to lasting complications, such as prolonged hospitalizations, increased disability rates, and higher mortality. Our study investigates the associated factors that contribute to post-stroke seizures in patients at a local tertiary hospital.Patients and Methods: We designed a case–control study where patients admitted with PSS were recruited with consent. Controls admitted for stroke without seizure were then included. Suitability based on exclusion criteria was ensured before recording their sociodemographic and clinical data. An EEG was performed and read by two certified neurologists before the data was analyzed.Results: We recruited 180 participants, 90 cases and 90 matched controls. Gender (p=0.013), race (p=0.015), dyslipidemia (p< 0.001), prior stroke (p< 0.031), large artery atherosclerosis (p< 0.001), small vessel occlusions (p< 0.001), blood pressure on presentation (p< 0.028) and thrombolysis administration (p< 0.029) were significantly associated with the occurrence of PSS. An increase in odds of PSS was observed in the male gender (1.974), dyslipidemia (3.480), small vessel occlusions (4.578), and in participants with epileptiform changes on EEG (3.630). Conversely, lower odds of PSS were seen in participants with high blood pressure on presentation (0.505), large artery atherosclerosis (0.266), and those who underwent thrombolysis (0.319).Conclusion: This study emphasized that identifying post-stroke seizures may be aided by EEGs and recognizing at-risk groups, which include males of Chinese descent in Asia, dyslipidemia, small vessel occlusions, those with low to normal blood pressure on presentation, and epileptiform changes in EEGs.Plain Language Summary: The research aims to establish the risk factors associated with post-stroke seizures in an Asian population and their similarity to the Western literature. Our findings highlight the critical risk factors to identify in at-risk patients, which may prompt changes in guidelines in future to enhance patient outcomes and improve the quality of care.Keywords: seizures, stroke, post-stroke epilepsy, epilepsy, electroencephalogram

Hongwu Yang, Yanshan He, Xiaolong Bu et al.

Automatic essay evaluation, an essential application of natural language processing (NLP) technology in education, has been increasingly employed in writing instruction and language proficiency assessment. Because automatic Chinese Essay Evaluation (ACEE) has made some breakthroughs due to the rapid development of upstream Chinese NLP technology, many evaluation tools have been applied in teaching practice and high-risk evaluation processes. However, the development of ACEE is still in its early stages, with many technical bottlenecks and challenges. This paper systematically explores the current research status of corpus construction, feature engineering, and scoring models in ACEE through literature to provide a technical perspective for stakeholders in the ACEE research field. Literature research has shown that constructing the ACEE public corpus is insufficient and lacks an effective platform to promote the development of ACEE research. Various shallow and deep features can be extracted using statistical and NLP techniques in ACEE. However, there are still substantial limitations in extracting grammatical errors and features related to syntax and traditional Chinese Literary style. For the construction of scoring models, existing studies have shown that traditional machine learning and deep learning methods each have advantages in different corpora and feature selections. The deep learning model, which exhibits strong adaptability and multi-task joint learning potential, has broader development space regarding model scalability.

ZHOU Wenjie, YANG Kehu

[Purpose/Significance] It is the requirement of the present times to build an independent knowledge system of evidence-based digital humanistic paradigm with Chinese characteristics. [Method/Process] Based on the World 3 theory developed by Popper, this study defines the essence of digital humanities research as representing, revealing and reproducing the structure of the objective knowledge world. Furthermore, based on the paradigm theory developed by Kuhn, this paper deeply discusses the basic theoretical elements of the independent knowledge system of the evidence-based digital humanities paradigm with Chinese characteristics. In this paper, the carding of the elements of evidence-based digital humanities theory is carried out from the perspective of the scientific community of digital humanities research. That is to say, the research that adheres to the evidence-based ideology and method of digital humanity is identified as the same research community, and it is believed that evidence-based digital humanities will build a relatively independent knowledge system in the future. [Results/Conclusions] This paper argues that the combination of the basic principles of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture is the ideological basis of the independent knowledge system of evidence-based digital humanities with Chinese characteristics. The collective memory of the Chinese nation with a long history and its carrier constitute the cultural basis of the independent knowledge system. The rich ancient literature works have laid a solid literature foundation for the formation of the independent knowledge system of evidence-based digital humanities with Chinese characteristics. Under the guidance of mutual evidence between literature and history, bibliography with distinctive Chinese academic characteristics has laid a solid methodological foundation for the evidence-based digital humanistic with Chinese characteristics. Under the context of digital intelligence era, building an evidence-based digital humanities independent knowledge system with Chinese characteristics will not only be benefitial to improving the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese people, but also have an obvious important significance in providing the world with a distinctive cultural heritage and cultural memory solutions. In the face of the massive traditional Chinese cultural resources, especially the precious cultural heritage including ancient literature works, it is not only timely but also imperative to apply emerging natural language processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and related advanced technologies, to carry out in-depth digital humanities research. The theoretical discussion conducted by this research is expected to benefit the construction of an evidence-based digital humanities independent knowledge system with Chinese characteristics.

Tongquan Zhou, Yulu Li, Honglei Liu et al.

The two event-related potentials (ERP) studies investigated how verbs and nouns were processed in different music priming conditions in order to reveal whether the motion concept via embodiment can be stimulated and evoked across categories. Study 1 (Tasks 1 and 2) tested the processing of verbs (action verbs vs. state verbs) primed by two music types, with tempo changes (accelerating music vs. decelerating music) and without tempo changes (fast music vs. slow music) while Study 2 (Tasks 3 and 4) tested the processing of nouns (animate nouns vs. inanimate nouns) in the same priming condition as adopted in Study 1. During the experiments, participants were required to hear a piece of music prior to judging whether an ensuing word (verb or noun) is semantically congruent with the motion concept conveyed by the music. The results show that in the priming condition of music with tempo changes, state verbs and inanimate nouns elicited larger N400 amplitudes than action verbs and animate nouns, respectively in the anterior regions and anterior to central regions, whereas in the priming condition of music without tempo changes, action verbs elicited larger N400 amplitudes than state verbs and the two categories of nouns revealed no N400 difference, unexpectedly. The interactions between music and words were significant only in Tasks 1, 2, and 3. Taken together, the results demonstrate that firstly, music with tempo changes and music without tempo prime verbs and nouns in different fashions; secondly, action verbs and animate nouns are easier to process than state verbs and inanimate nouns when primed by music with tempo changes due to the shared motion concept across categories; thirdly, bodily experience differentiates between music and words in coding (encoding and decoding) fashion but the motion concept conveyed by the two categories can be subtly extracted on the metaphorical basis, as indicated in the N400 component. Our studies reveal that music tempos can prime different word classes, favoring the notion that embodied motion concept exists across domains and adding evidence to the hypothesis that music and language share the neural mechanism of meaning processing.

Rodica FRENŢIU, Florina ILIS

Books and education are, we believe, the elements of an equation that permanently provokes the world, the attempt of which gives birth to the winning bet of a nation. And research, in this equation, enhances the sensitive human being, expanding its register of senses and thinking to unexpected shades. Issue 3 of 2010 of the journal Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Philology marked the establishment of the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, with the three specializations: Chinese Language and Literature, Korean Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature. We expressed then the hope that diversification, enrichment of the educational offer within the Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, would mean a good future for our department. A fact evidenced by the ten years that have passed and by the increasing number of students enrolled in the department's specializations, the proposed bachelor's degree curriculum trying to transform the fascination of young people for the Far East into knowledge and expertise. Also, in collaboration with the Confucius Institute, the Korean Cultural Center and the Sembazuru Japanese Studies Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures completes the analytical program of specializations organizing both cultural and scientific events, but also initiating actions to expand and strengthen relations with universities or various organizations in China, South Korea and Japan.

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