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(2010)Conference PaperUsing a cognitive load theory approach, this study was conducted to investigate the effects of training using multiple accents on perceiving foreign-accented English for EFL learners with different levels of expertise. Specifically, it explored the benefits of using multiple talkers during training compared to a single talker for Chinese EFL learners on perceptual learning of Indian-accented English. There were four training conditions for listeners with either high- or low- expertise levels of English language proficiency: 1. A low variability multiple-talker training condition in which the stimuli sentences produced by four Indian- accented speakers were presented in a fixed order;
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(2010)Conference PaperVietnam is an East Asian country which has been immensely influenced by Confucian ideology. This heritage has been transferred from generation to generation, and has greatly influenced the development of a valuing of, and love of, learning in Vietnamese intellectually gifted adolescents. The purpose of the present study is to construct and test a specific scale to reflect Confucian values endorsed by intellectually gifted adolescents and their age-peers not identified as gifted in Vietnam. A total of 352 high school students (intellectually gifted adolescents = 50.6%, and students not identified as gifted = 49.4%) participated in a survey containing 40 items that were selected from previous studies published in scholarly English journals on the adoption of Confucian values in various cultural settings. Those items were translated from English into Vietnamese by a NAATI (The National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters) registered professional and back-translated by two other translators.
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(2010)Conference PaperConfucianism is an amalgamation of thoughts initiated by a Chinese scholar Confucius (551?479 BC) and his followers. It emphasizes themes such as the hierarchical relationship among people, the family as a basic unit, benevolence, diligence, self improvement, and life-long education. Since China dominated Vietnam for more than a thousand years and most Vietnamese inhabitants were descended from Chinese who had settled in Vietnam and become Vietnamese, they inherited the Chinese historical and philosophical ideas from their fore-parents. In general, research with intellectually gifted adolescents in North America and Australia has a) indicated a certain degree of adoption of Confucian values in students from East Asian background, and b) identified their advanced levels of moral reasoning. The present study aims to examine the similarities and differences between Vietnamese intellectually gifted adolescents and their age-peers not identified as gifted in the adoption of traditional Confucian values and related
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(2010)Conference Paper