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    Analyzing the Motivation on International Students' Academic Performance in Universities in Taiwan
    (2015) 唐婉玲; Janell Roshea Dawson
    Motivation is one of the most commonly used instruments in predicting performance. The majority of the studies based on motivation tackle the issue of predicting job performance, while some of the studies are involved on more specific situations, such as academic performance or training performance. This study examined the relationship between motivation and academic performance of international students enrolled in universities throughout Taiwan who have take the Test of Chinese as a Second Language to determine whether motivation played a significant role in student achievement in this examination. Secondly to add information, insight, and close research gaps where Taiwan is concern and to offer both academic and practitioners additional insight in educational issues such as admissions to college or graduate programs. Motivation was assessed using the Academic Motivation Scale Questionnaire (AMS) comprised of the following seven motivation subscales: intrinsic motivation- to know, intrinsic motivation-towards accomplishment, intrinsic motivation- to experience stimulus, extrinsic motivation- identified regulation, extrinsic motivation-introjected regulation, extrinsic motivation-external regulation and Amotivation. Shih and Dawson developed two models. The MAP model, developed by Shih and Dawson tested motivation and academic performance with a sample of 200. Results show that there is a moderate correlation among the independent variable of Motivation and the dependent variable of academic performance as seen from the SEM pathway.
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    論現代漢語處所倒裝結構之句法分析
    (2013) 唐婉玲; Wan-Ling Tang
    本篇論文主要研究不同類型的現代漢語處所倒裝結構。本研究顯示，在此結構中，前置處所詞可以是名詞片語亦或介系詞片語。當前置處所詞若為名詞片語時，在句法表現上，和一般主詞相似；若為介系詞片語時，在句法表現上，則與一般主詞截然不同。基於處所名詞片語和介系詞片語在句法上表現不同，我們認為它們在句法結構的位置亦不同。處所介系詞片語可以選擇停留在動詞前毗鄰的位置，亦或移至句首邊緣位置; 而處所名詞片語則佔據句法主詞的位置。 不同於英文的動詞，漢語的動詞在論旨角色的選擇上更為自由。我們同意HLL(2009)的理論中所提出漢語的詞彙動詞中可以只選擇詞根，而不選輕動詞，所有在詞根語義中的參與者資訊都有可能進入句法操作，實現為論元。然而，不同於HLL (2009)的理論，我們認為，論旨角色在句法實現上，仍然必須遵守論元層級。我們主張，在漢語處所倒裝結構中，處所在論元層級中高於客體，因此進入句法操作時，處所詞佔據句法結構中較高的主詞位置，而客體則佔據賓語的位置。本篇論文目的在於提出一個統合的句法分析，探討現代漢語處所倒裝結構。研究結果支持詞彙學派，論元結構是由詞彙動詞的語意，而非由句法來決定的。