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Title:: Developing a Tool to Measure the Structure of Oral ChineseLearning Strategy for Speakers of Languages Other than Chinese

Keywords:: native English speakers; oral Chinese; strategy; structure; measurement

Abstract:: We targeted Chinese learners whose native language was English to acquire data and give them a corpus analysis, and then conducted interviews and recorded verbal protocols to investigate their understanding of oral Chinese learning strategies and usage. On this basis, we worked out the oral Chinese Strategies Questionnaire(OCSQ). 130 native English speakers were sampled in the preliminary survey, and 206 in the second. We then did exploratory factor analysis and item analysis of the questionnaires received. According to our exploratory factor analysis, oral acquisition strategy comprises three dimensions: mother tongue thinking, semantic interpretation and multi-word chunking; oral expression strategy includes four dimensions: planning monitoring, expression reflection, social communication and resource utilization. Confirmatory factor analysis proves OCSQ’s reliability and validity, so does internal consistency analysis.