Jiangbo Hu

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Zhejiang Normal University

This article reports on a deep investigation of five Australian Chinese families regarding their preschool-aged children's bilingual experiences and development. Each family was visited 3 to 5 times by the first author. The mothers were interviewed about their attitudes toward their child's bilingualism and their practices to promote it. A detailed...

A comparison between preschool children's verbal participation during the shared reading of a wordless and a text-based rendition of Aesop's fable The Lion and the Mouse Abstract This study compared the story-focused language of two groups of 40 Chinese preschool children who separately read and discussed a wordless and a text-based version of one...

Mental state language (MSL) is a language used to describe individual internal states including one’s desire, emotion, perception and cognition. This study compared Chinese and Japanese preschool educators’ use of MSL in interactions with preschool children. Based on ecological systems of educator-child interactions, it analyzed 12 Chinese and 12 J...

Decontextualized language is used by speakers to describe experiences that occurred previously, things that may happen in the future, or events that have distances from the instance of interactions between the speakers. For instance, we went to park yesterday, and we will go to cinema tomorrow, and the cinema was produced by Warner. This language i...

Theoretically and methodologically guided by the concept of perezhivanie as a unit of human consciousness, this study explores the changes of a child’s consciousness on something, with a focus on instances of repetitiveness found during everyday family play. Two families from mainland China with three-year-old children participated in this study. A...

College students' motivation and engagement are regarded as essential factors to promote their academic development and wellbeing. However, motivation and engagement among college students appear to decline after they enter the university. Guided by the framework of self-determination theory, this study attempted to explore a motivational model of...

Off-seat behaviour refers to students leaving their seats and walking out of a classroom without the teacher noticing. This behaviour occurs in special education for students with certain special needs, which would lead to serious safety problems. This study carried out an inattentional blindness test to explore whether the location of seats in cla...

This study explored the socioemotional experiences of Wuhan preschool children and their parents relating to father-child relationships during lockdown. Mixed method was employed with a semi-structured interview engaged 12 families and an online questionnaire involving 748 parents. The results show that the parents generally held positive attitudes...

This study examines the feature of reasoning talk used by 37 Chinese families at the dinner table across three generations with the background of co-parenting and in consideration of different communicative contexts. Drawing upon Hasan’s semantic framework, reasons were mainly coded as logical or social types. We categorize the communicative contex...

Mental State Language (MSL) is language that refers to individuals’ inner states, including terms relating to emotion, desire-&-preference, perception and cognition. This study explores the nature of eight Chinese educators’ MSL in their interactions with infants during structured and free play. In total, 3169 language messages (one message include...

This study compares the mental-state talk of infant educators in Australia and China in order to determine the nuanced differences in the ways that they use this talk with the infants in their room. Participants are 44 native English-speaking Australian educators from centres in Sydney, Australia and 30 native Chinese-speaking infant educators recr...

This study examined the distribution of language expansion in parent–child (preschool aged) mealtime conversations in 30 Chinese middle-class families. The conversations were categorised into four types: contextualised & conflicted, contextualised & non-conflicted, decontextualised & conflicted, and decontextualised & non-conflicted. The language e...

This study aims to examine the mediating and moderating roles of self-concept and resilience in the relationship between teacher-child relationships and social withdrawal with a sample of 380 Chinese left-behind children in a rural region in Guangdong Province, China. They were measured by using Children's Social Behavioral Scale-Teacher Form, Deve...

This case study investigates two Chinese children’s shared reading experiences in both home and preschool contexts. The parents and the educators were interviewed about their general attitudes and practices relating to shared reading for promoting the Chinese children’s bilingual development. Detailed observations were undertaken to record the pare...

Abstract This study explores the nature of six Chinese infant educators’ language use in their interactions with infants during lunch time. Drawing on the ideational functions of systemic functional linguistic theory, the experiences exchanged in educators’ language were categorized into the process of doing-&-happening (material), sensing (mental)...

This study created a motion graphic (MG) animation about the danger of snakes within a story telling structure, which is different from a traditional science animation that relies on explanatory language to explain the scientific concept. The effects of the two types of animations on children’s attentional perception on snakes were compared by an i...

Inattentional blindness (IB) refers to the nature of an individual being unaware of an unexpected stimulus when focusing on an attentional task. Investigation into IB provides an innovative approach for the research of attentional bias that is connected with an individual’s immediate attentional capture. This study explored the effect of emotional...

Research Findings Grounded on personification storytelling, this intervention study introduced a science program including extensive astronomy concepts to 24 children (4–5 years). The storytelling attributes personal characteristics to cosmic bodies with metaphors relating to children’s lives in explaining the scientific concepts, for example, the...

Families’ mealtime talk has significant implications for children’s language development. This study investigated five middle-class Australian Chinese families that differ in their lifestyles and meal routines. It aims to explore (1) the nature of the Chinese parents’ language use in interactions with children at mealtime and (2) the factors that m...

This study examines the frequency of reasoning talk used by 56 educators during their naturally occurring play interactions with infants in their early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers. Using Hasan’s semantic framework, reasons were coded as social (based on social rules) or logical (based on rules of nature). The communicative function...

This paper reports five Australian educators’ language practices relating to Chinese children’s English learning in long day care centres. Portraiture methodology is employed in this study to present the investigation by embracing the views of the participants who negotiate their experiences with a desire of showing goodness of their practices. The...

This study investigated the manner in which 56 infant educators used language to direct the behaviour of infants (defined as children aged birth to two years), on the basis that the ways in which educators frame their commands represent an important component of young children’s learning experiences. Underpinned by systemic functional linguistic th...

The everyday conversations that occur between mothers and children, particularly those involving reasoning, are a major vehicle for the transmission of information and values to young children. This study explored the manner in which five Australian Chinese mothers engaged in reasoning talk with their preschool-aged children. A total of 83 instance...

The everyday conversations that occur between mothers and children, particularly those involving reasoning, are a major vehicle for the transmission of information and values to young children. This study explored the manner in which five Australian Chinese mothers engaged in reasoning talk with their preschool-aged children. A total of 83 instance...

This study investigated five Australian early childhood educators’ negotiation of the complex terrain of working in partnership with Chinese parents regarding their children’s language usage in early childhood settings. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken to explore educators’ views on children’s language usage in early childhood settings, t...