Zhe Gao
List of John Benjamins publications in which Zhe Gao is involved.
Articles
2022 Acquisition of non-sibilant anterior English fricatives by adult second language learners Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 8:1, pp. 68–94 | Article
This study examined the acquisition of the non-sibilant anterior fricatives /v, θ, ð/ by adult second language (L2) English talkers. Twenty-four Mandarin Chinese-L2 English talkers read aloud fricative-initial words. These talkers were chosen as their L1 contained /f/ but not /v, θ, ð/. Twenty… read more
2020 L2 learning of opaque Chinese compounds through elaborative encoding Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 55:1, pp. 1–23 | Article
Chinese compounds consist of two to four characters but function as single word. If the compounds are semantically opaque and contain unfamiliar characters, learners will resort to learning them individually by rote. However, given the large number of Chinese compounds, rote learning can place… read more