Predicting Chinese and English interrogative development in a multilingual context: a corpus-based study of Singapore preschoolers

Curriculum Hybridization and Cultural Glocalization: A Scoping Review of International Research on Early Childhood Curriculum in China and Singapore

“…They even found that some Chinese kindergartens provided literacy skills training in connection with commercial organizations. In terms of math teaching, Li et al’s (2015) study revealed a dominance of intentional teaching and age-specific content coverage in the OC. The finding is consistent with Hu et al’s (2017) observations, which indicated that the actual math teaching failed to provide students with opportunities to understand math as independent learners.…”

“…is also included in Wang et al’s (2008) study. e Seven other countries are also included in Miyahara and Meyers’s (2008) analysis. f Norway is also included in Hammer and He’s (2016) study. g U.S. is also included in Li et al’s (2015) study. h Hong Kong SAR is also included in Yang and Li’s (2018b) study. i Australia is also included in Hamilton et al’s (2019) study. j Australia is also included in Nyland and Ng’s (2016) study. k Korea, Norway, New Zealand, and Slovakia are also included in Kim and Kim’s (2017) study. l Bautista et al’s (2021) study was published online in 2020.…”

“…As shown in Table 1, regarding the domains in which ECC is examined, we found five studies on literacy (e.g., Li & Rao, 2005; Tang, 2015), four studies on math (e.g., Hu et al, 2014; Li et al, 2015), four studies on arts (e.g., Bautista et al, 2018; Hamilton et al, 2019), three studies on social–emotional development (e.g., Luo et al, 2020; Ng & Bull, 2018), two studies on physical development (e.g., Hussain, 2018), and one study on science (i.e., Hammer & He, 2016). In addition, in terms of the research topic, curriculum framework (four studies), school-based curriculum (three studies), play (three studies), and curriculum beliefs (two studies) have been highlighted.…”

“…Textbooks, learning packages, literacy, and English teaching are banned in the "De-schoolification" movement. In contrast, Singapore's educational authorities adopt pragmatism and allow early learning and teaching of literacy, numeracy, and bilingualism (Li et al, 2012(Li et al, , 2022.…”

A Corpus-Based Comparison of the Pragmatic Use of Qian and Hou to Examine the Applicability of Space–Time Metaphor Hypothesis in Early Child Mandarin

“…Using Age (four groups), Gender (two), Society (three), and Language (Mandarin, Cantonese, and English) as the study variables, this corpus allows scholars to explore the age and gender differences in early psycholinguistic development and to conduct cross-linguistic and cross-society comparisons. So far, this corpus has generated six academic publications, exploring Chinese and English interrogative development in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore preschoolers ( Li et al, 2015 , 2017 , 2019 ), early acquisition of aspect markers and temporal adverbs in Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking preschoolers ( Tse et al, 2012 ; Liang et al, 2019 ), and early acquisition of Cantonese classifiers ( Li and Wong, 2014 ). This study was based on the ECMC in Beijing ( Li and Tse, 2011 ), which comprises 42 h of conversations between 168 Mandarin speakers aged from 2 to 5 years, with 21 boys and 21 girls in each age group.…”