21.3552, Qs: Call for Participants: Research on Chinese Idioms

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Subject: 21.3552, Qs: Call for Participants: Research on Chinese Idioms

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Date: 03-Sep-2010
From: Shu Pin Nall < shu_ping_nall at hotmail.com >
Subject: Call for Participants: Research on Chinese Idioms
 

	
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:18:32
From: Shu Pin Nall [shu_ping_nall at hotmail.com]
Subject: Call for Participants: Research on Chinese Idioms

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Dear Friends,
 
My wife and I are working on a research paper that tries to discover 
ways to help non-native Chinese speakers learn Chinese idioms 
(specifically, idioms containing numbers) in more effective ways. We 
are inviting people to participate in this study, which only requires 
guessing (yes, simply guessing) the answers to 50 questions.  

Basically, we are asking the participants to do the following three 
things:
(1)  Play a guessing game:  50 multiple choice questions. There will be 
four possible answers for each idiom. You can choose the answer you 
think might best describe the idiom... (might take about 10 ~ 15 
minutes).
(2)  Watch a PowerPoint presentation (or word document explanation) 
on how Chinese number idioms work (might take about 15 ~ 20 
minutes) 
(3)  Play the exact same guessing game again (might take about 10 ~ 
15 minutes).
 
Basically, we will compare the result of the first and the last guessing 
game and see if the PowerPoint presentation explanation helps the 
participants guess the meanings with a higher accuracy rate. We are 
interested in finding out whether a specific method of teaching Chinese 
number idioms makes it easier for people to learn Chinese number 
idioms. However, you don't need to worry about that. The only things 
you'll do are steps 1 to 3 above.
 
Your participation in this study will help our research very much! To 
participate, participants do not have to know any Chinese (and may not 
ever plan to learn Chinese) or may have learned some Chinese 
previously. If you would be interested in participating in this study, 
please feel free to email us at: shu_ping_nall at hotmail.com
 
If you know any students or anyone else who might help out, please 
forward this to them.
 
Thank you so much and we appreciate your time and trouble!
 
Sincerely,
 
Tim & Shu Pin 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)




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