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This chapter explores 3 to 6 year old Chinese children's comprehension of a picture storybook The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The results show: (1) Chinese children's understanding of images, actions and characters' states improves with age; (2) Children develop their understanding of images first, followed by actions and then characters' states; (3) It is easier for children to understand images prominent in pictures than those not prominent in pictures or containing culture-specific information with which children are not familiar, actions represented directly through the relationship of

English language --- Second language acquisition. --- Language acquisition. --- Discourse analysis. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching --- Chinese speakers. --- Acquisition --- Germanic languages

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"This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates Chinese learners learning and language skills, perceptions and particularly the processes of reciprocal intercultural adaptations in a wide international context of Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the UK"--

English language --- Second language acquisition --- Vocabulary --- Spoken English --- Study and teaching --- Chinese speakers

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