Gan Qiao

University of Canterbury | UC · NZILBB

This study examined the relationships among interactive intensity, lexical alignment and L2 writing quality under two variations (multi-turn vs. single-turn) of a story continuation task. The multi-turn version entailed more interaction between the learner and the text than the single-turn version. One-hundred and nine Chinese undergraduates were a...

Across varieties of English, the realisation of pre-vocalic definite article the is undergoing change, with a move away from non-glottalised FLEECE towards both glottalised FLEECE and SCHWA. Here, we examine this change in apparent time in a socially stratified corpus of spontaneous speech with 91 native speakers of Australian English of Anglo-Celt...

This study, a partial replication of Tavakoli and Hunter, examined the perceptions and self-reported practices of 72 second language (L2) teachers of English or Japanese in China regarding oral fluency. The research employed a mixed-methods approach, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data through questionnaires and interviews. The findin...

Ethnicity has been a longstanding factor in studies of language variation and change (Labov, 1966), including in pioneering work in Australia with Australians of Greek and Italian background (Horvath, 1985). This thesis focuses on linguistic variation among a community that has received less attention, Cantonese-background Chinese Australians. Draw...

The dative alternation, e.g., he gives me two books vs. he gives two books to me, has been extensively studied in World Englishes. However, it remains relatively underexplored in second language learner English, particularly in relation to the influence of verb semantics and contextual factors involving recipient and theme characteristics. Comparat...

This study investigated how the mode in which the reading-writing integrated continuation task was conducted modulates the effects of second language (L2) syntactic alignment, through the English motion event construction with manner verbs. Ninety Chinese students were assigned to either of the two experimental groups or a control group, and they a...

Structural priming (also known as syntactic priming) refers to the ubiquitous phenomenon that when people talk or write, they tend to reuse previously used or contacted linguistic structures in their output. In the past thirty years, language sciences have been witnessing a growing interest in structural priming. Evidence abounds that structural pr...