Advances in chinese as a second language : acquisition and processing / edited by Nan Jiang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jiang, Nan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Study and teaching.

Chinese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a collection of 13 empirical studies examining the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language. On the acquisition front, these studies explore the acquisition of structures such as the perfective marker le, wh-questions, bei- constructions, and bare nouns, and examine the factors that may affect acquisition such as learners' background, anxiety, and instruction. Processing studies cover topics such as the identification of Chinese tones, the recognition of charact...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; ACQUIRING THE PERFECTIVE ASPECT MARKERLE IN DIFFERENT LEARNING CONTEXTS; THE EFFECT OF METALINGUISTIC PROMPTSON THE ACQUISITION OF CHINESEWH-QUESTIONS; THE SECOND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONOF ASPECT IN CHINESE BEI-CONSTRUCTIONS; COMPARISON BETWEEN ADVANCED-LEVELCHINESE HERITAGE AND NON-HERITAGELEARNERS' NARRATIVE WRITING; ANXIETY IN LEARNING CHINESEAS A HERITAGE LANGUAGEAND THE INFLUENCE OF BACKGROUNDVARIABLES; FOCUSED DICTOGLOSS,PEER COLLABORATION,AND GUIDED RECONSTRUCTION; THE SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONOF CHINESE BARE NOUNSBY ENGLISH SPEAKERS; PART II

TRAINING NAÏVE LEARNERSTO IDENTIFY CHINESE TONETHE ROLES OF CHARACTER PROPERTIESIN EARLY LEARNING TO READ CHINESEAS A SECOND LANGUAGE; CFL LEARNERS' STRATEGIES USEDTO INTERPRET NEW COMPOUND WORDSIN SENTENCE READING; THE EFFECT OF SEMANTIC RELATIONAND L2 PROFICIENCY ON COMPREHENSIONOF CHINESE NOUN-NOUN COMPOUNDS; RESEARCH ON ACQUISITION DIFFICULTYOF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN CHINESEAS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EXPRESSING CAUSED MOTION EVENTSIN L2 CHINESE; EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5753-X

OCLC:

875037661