繁、簡體字讀者漢字認知技巧的遷移

Tianyin Liu,Janet Hui‐wen HSIAO 한국한자한문교육학회 2013 국제한국한자한문교육학회 학술대회 Vol.2013 No.1

There are currently two Chinese writing systems in use in Chinese speaking regions, namely simplified and traditional Chinese, and the effects of simplifying the script have aroused some discussion over last two decades. Recent research suggested that analytic/reduced holistic processing (i.e., identifying individual components of an object rather than gluing features together into a gestalt) is an expertise marker in Chinese character recognition (Hsiao & Cottrell, 2009), which depends mainly on readers’ writing rather than reading experience (Tso, Au, & Hsiao, 2011).  Based on these findings, the current study took a cognitive perspective and examined whether and how simplified and traditional Chinese readers perceive simplified and traditional Chinese characters in terms of holistic processing. Results showed that when processing characters that are shared between the two Chinese scripts, both simplified and traditional Chinese readers demonstrated a similar level of reading and writing abilities, as well as holistic processing. When processing characters that are distinctive in the two scripts, simplified Chinese readers were more analytic than traditional Chinese readers in perceiving simplified characters; this effect depended on their writing rather than reading/copying performance. On the contrary, the two groups of readers did not differ in holistic processing of traditional characters, regardless of their performance difference in writing/copying of traditional characters. In sum, these results indicate that both simplified and traditional Chinese expert readers have developed analytic processing skills in the scripts they are familiar with; nevertheless, whereas simplified Chinese readers could transfer this skill to the processing of traditional characters, traditional Chinese readers could not in the processing of simplified characters. The better generalization ability in simplified Chinese readers may be due to a larger variance in visual form of simplified characters as compared with that of traditional counterparts. 

Productivity Growth in Newly Developed Countries The Case of Korea and Taiwan

FrankS.T.Hsiao,ChangsuhPark 한국경제연구학회 2002 Korea and the World Economy Vol.3 No.2

The Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Modern Inner Mongolian Relative Clauses: A Statistical Perspective

( Su Ying Hsiao ) 경희대학교 언어연구소 2012 언어연구 Vol.29 No.2

Hsiao, Su-ying, 2012, The Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Modem Inner Mongolian Relative (lames: A Statistical Perspective. Linguistic Research 29(2), 351-380. This paper investigates the nominative/genitive alternation in Modem Inner Mongolian from a statistical perspective, and accounts for the different preferences of nominative or genitive subjects in relative clauses between Mongolian and Japanese from a synchronic point of view, It is proposed that finiteness of relative clauses accounts for the subject Case marking alternation. Nominal subject occurs in a finite relative clause, and genitive subject occurs in a non-finite, nominal relative clause. Our statistical study shows that nominative subjects are less preferred than their genitive counterparts in Modem Inner Mongolian. Compared to Mongolian nominative/genitive alternation, nominative subjects are more common in Japanese. It is claimed that the developments of verbal noun aspectual suffixes to finite indicative suffixes also occurred in the history of Japanese, and Japanese goes faster than Mongolian does, Aspectual suffixes have evolved into indicative suffixes in Japanese, while in Inner Mongolian it is an ongoing development.

Antenatal Depression in East Asia: A Review of the Literature

Mei-Chun Hsiao,Mei-Chun Hsiao,Chia-Yih Liu 대한신경정신의학회 2012 PSYCHIATRY INVESTIGATION Vol.9 No.2

This current study’s goal is to summarize the literature regarding Antenatal Depression (AD) in the East Asian countries of Taiwan, China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Japan, and Korea. The main search utilized a Pub med Chinese Electronic Periodical Service (CEPS) literature review using keywords ‘AD’, and ‘Prenatal Depression’ with searches for ‘Japan’, ‘Korea’, ‘Taiwan’, ‘Hong Kong’ and Macau’. The rates of AD in East Asia appear to be relatively close to those in the Western literature, although certain studies showed slightly decreased rates. Many of the risk factors for AD were the same in the Eastern and Western literature. These risk factors included demographic factors such as younger age, smoking, low education and income, and unemployment. Other risk factors were physical symptoms such as menstrual pains and nausea. Finally, psychological factors such as a poor response to the pregnancy, poor spousal support, and poor family support were associated with AD. With regard to treatment, there were no studies examining the administration of psychotropic medications for AD. The literature from East Asia both confirmed many Western findings and made unique contributions to the literature on AD. The treatment of AD in East Asia appears to be an entity which, despite its morbidity, has not been adequately studied.

Understanding Motivational Fluctuations among Young Rural EFL Learners: A Longitudinal Case Study

Hsiao-Wen Hsu 아시아테플 2019 The Journal of Asia TEFL Vol.16 No.4

This three year longitudinal study examines Taiwanese rural junior high school students’ motivational changes regarding learning English. The same questionnaire measuring their levels of motivation was conducted throughout fiv e semeste rs across three school years. Seven motivational aspects, including intrinsic, extrinsic, task value, control beliefs, self efficacy, expectancy and test anxiety, were measured each semester. The overall findings suggest that these rural students started w ith higher levels of intrinsic, extrinsic and task related motivation compared to the other motivational aspects; also that girls generally presented higher motivation levels than boys. More generally, students reported mild to low level motivatio n, which indicated that rural students’ EFL motivation would decrease during their school years. The results suggest both English teacher and homeroom teacher appear to play vital roles in affecting rural students’ motivation. Such findings signal a need f or Englis h teachers and educational authorities to reconsider the methods used for both developing and improving rural students’ motivation to learn English throughout their junior high school years. Other factors, including gender and English engagement a fter scho ol, were also found to be effective. This study also suggests practical recommendations for English learning and teaching in rural Taiwanese high schools, which may be effective in other EFL contexts.

Girls’ and Boys’ Science Choices and Learning in Upper-Secondary Schools in Taiwan

Hsiao-chin Hsieh,Pei-ying Chen,Ta-sen Lin 숙명여자대학교 아시아여성연구원 2017 Asian Women Vol.33 No.3

This study explores differences in how high school girls and boys in upper-secondary schools in Taiwan choose courses and learn science. The Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is adopted as the analytical approach. Two upper-secondary schools, LL Senior High School and MM Vocational High School, were selected due to their emphasis on science and technology education. Student surveys were conducted to investigate how students chose between courses and majors; two chemistry lab classes, one led by a male teacher and the other by a female teacher, in LL Senior High School, and one chemical-engineering lab class of MM Vocational High School were observed multiple times. Lab class teachers from both schools were interviewed. The survey data showed clear gender segregation in both schools, but only part of the students considered gender to be an important factor influencing their selection of courses and major fields. Observations of the relatively gender-balanced chemistry laboratories revealed that equipment and instrumentation were sufficient and equally accessible to all, that girls and boys behaved differently in the lab, and that patterns of teacher-student interaction varied by teacher’s gender, which might result in differences in laboratory learning between boys and girls. The concept of embodied pedagogical insight of female teachers, which may specifically benefit girls’ learning, is discussed.

The Feminisation of Primary Teaching in Taiwan

Hsiao-jung Li 숙명여자대학교 아시아여성연구원 2014 Asian Women Vol.30 No.1

This article examines the feminisation of primary teaching in Taiwan by drawing on statistical data, official documents, and findings of local Taiwanese research and my own ethnographic study. Firstly, state policies targeted at reforming the educational system and teacher training contribute to the substantial entry of women into primary teaching training and the teaching profession. Secondly, my research evidence suggests that cultural contexts, including gender norms, teaching as a career conforming to feminine attributes, men leaving teaching, women’s increasing independence, and constructing primary teaching as women’s work underpin the feminisation of primary teaching.

Language in Music Creativity with Kodály

Hsiao-Shien Chen,Yu-Chuan Yao 아시아음악학회 2008 Asian Musicology Vol.13 No.-

Creativity is an important domain in music teaching and learning and also recognized as the most difficult discipline to teach. Music educators in Taiwan recently reevaluate the status of music creativity and let it take place in music teaching and learning, although "what to teach" and "how to teach" are still the problems for the teachers. Among various elements in music creativity, language plays a significant role by its unique characteristic. Chinese is known as "one word, one syllable" and belongs to the family of tonal languages therefore the intonation of Mandarin or Taiwanese usually implies intervals and melodies while inappropriate words in a melody can cause misunderstanding. From musicians' point of view, the application of Mandarin could be a road leading to music creativity, and Kodaly approach makes a logical procedure to help music learners foster their comprehensive musicianship. From cultural context to music literacy, from part to whole, music educators start with Mandarin words and intervals, and step further to phrases in musical form, eventually achieve a complete song in music writing. Mandarin and music play a perfect match in music creativity. This paper presents step-by-step Kodaly teaching procedure in music creativity while characteristics of Mandarin are emphasized.

Effects of silt contents on the static and dynamic properties of sand-silt mixtures

Hsiao, Darn H.,Phan, Vu T.A. Techno-Press 2014 Geomechanics & engineering Vol.7 No.3

This paper presents a detailed study focused on investigating the effects of silt content on the static and dynamic properties of sand-silt mixtures. Specimens with a low-plastic silt content of 0, 15, 30 and 50% by weight were tested in static triaxial, cyclic triaxial, and resonant columns in addition to consolidation tests to determine such parameters as compression index, internal friction angle, cohesion, cyclic stress ratio, maximum shear modulus, normalized shear modulus and damping ratio. The test procedures were performed on specimens of three cases: constant void ratio index, e = 0.582; same peak deviator stress of 290 kPa; and constant relative density, $D_r$ = 30%. The test results obtained for both the constant-void-ratio-index and constant-relative-density specimens showed that as silt content increased, the internal friction angle, cyclic stress ratio and maximum shear modulus decreased, but cohesion increased. In testing of the same deviator stress specimens, both cohesion and internal friction angle were insignificantly altered with the increase in silt content. In addition, as silt content increased, the maximum shear modulus increased. The cyclic stress ratio first decreased as silt content increased to reach the threshold silt content and increased thereafter with further increases in silt content. Furthermore, the damping ratio was investigated based on different silt contents in three types of specimens.

Student`s Perceptions of Online Academic English Tutoring

( Hsiao Fang Cheng ) 범태평양응용언어학회 2015 범태평양응용언어학회지 Vol.19 No.1

English textbooks are widely used in every discipline in the majority of colleges and universities in Taiwan. To prepare college students for their future careers, it is necessary they be given systematic training and practice in reading these books. However, due to time constraints, most content teachers focus on the delivery of content rather than the language in the texts. To compensate for the lack of time available for academic English instruction, this study attempts to investigate an alternative online approach to improving student``s academic English reading comprehension. Using a Course Management System, students were given Internet access to detailed explanations by their teachers of both the content and the language of their texts. A survey was conducted at the end of the semester to investigate the students`` reading needs as well as what they thought of the online support. The survey results revealed that students needed training in reading strategies, the analysis of complex sentence structure and the accurate pronunciation of terminology. Tn addition, more than eighty percent of the participants thought online support was a viable alternative to in-class language instruction, but less than ten percent had used the facilities provided. Drawing on the results of this study, some pedagogical implications are proposed.