Research in Chinese as a Second Language.

Research in Chinese as a Second Language.

The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resultedin the development of a strong research framework for the discipline. Thebook addresses this gap by drawing together research from international scholars working in the field of Chinese as a second language research. The volum...

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Main Author: Kecskés, István
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : De Gruyter, 2013.
Series:Trends in applied linguistics.
Subjects:
Chinese language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.
Second language acquisition > Research.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Southeast Asian Languages.
Chinese language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers
Second language acquisition > Research
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributors to the volume; Introduction; Chapter 1: Research base for practice; Developing Chinese oral skills
  • A research base for practice; Asymmetric style of communication in Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction; Learning tones cooperatively in the CSL classroom: A proposal; Chapter 2: Integrating culture and language; Integrating culture and language in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom: A view from the bottom up; Analysis of pragmatic functions of Chinese cultural markers; Gestures as tone markers in multilingual communication.
  • The collaborative construction of culture knowledge in a Chinese movie classChapter 3: Acquisition of language structures; The acquisition of Chinese modal auxiliary Neng Verb Group (NVG): A case study of an English L2 learner of Chinese; Acquisition of Chinese relative clauses at the initial stage; Conceptual similarities in languages
  • Evidence from English "be going to" and its Chinese counterparts; SLA of Mandarin nominal syntax: Emergence order in the early stages; Index.

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