Research in Chinese as a second language / edited by Istvan Kecskes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kecskés, István.

Series:

Trends in applied linguistics ; 9.

Trends in applied linguistics, 1868-6362 ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Chinese language.

Second language acquisition--Research.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book aims to address one of the main problems of Chinese language teaching: lack of research base. The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resulted in the development of a strong research background. This book attempts to change the current situation. The volume consists of three chapters. Chapter I: Research Base for Practice contains three papers, each of which uses research findings as a basis for solving issues connected with practical language teaching. Chapter II: Integrating Culture and Language is about one of the most intriguing topics of current language-oriented research: how to integrate culture into the process of language teaching. Chapter III: Acquisition of Language Structures consists of studies that investigate the acquisition of certain grammatical structures in Chinese. There are only a few papers in the literature on this issue, so the articles in this chapter are especially important for further research. One of the most important features of the volume is that each paper makes an attempt to bring together theory and practice by focusing on theory-building based on practice or theory application in practice. Thus the book can be recommended to both researchers and practitioners.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Contributors to the volume

Introduction

Chapter 1: Research base for practice

Developing Chinese oral skills - A research base for practice / Orton, Jane

Asymmetrical style of communication in Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction: Pedagogical implications for TCSOL professionals / Yang, Ping

Learning tones cooperatively in the CSL classroom: A proposal / Chen, Wang

Chapter 2: Integrating culture and language

Integrating culture and language in the CFL classroom: A view from the bottom up / Danison, Ned

Analysis of pragmatic functions of Chinese cultural markers / Wang, Xiaolu / Ma, Tingting

Gestures as tone markers in multilingual communication / Chen, Chun-Mei

The collaborative construction of cultural knowledge in a Chinese movie class / Liu, Ying

Chapter 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 / Xiong, Wen

Acquisition of Chinese relative clauses at the initial stage / Xu, Yi

Conceptual similarities in languages - Evidence from English be going to and its Chinese counterparts / Lin, Zi-Yu

SLA of Mandarin nominal syntax: Emergence order in the early stages / Charters, Helen

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781614512554

1614512558

OCLC:

851970225