Research in Chinese as a second language

Research in Chinese as a second language

by Kecskes, Istvan

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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 volume is organized in three sections: Research Base for Practice, Integrating Culture and Language and Acquisition of Language Structures. One of the central contributions of the book is that each paper …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Research in Chinese as a second language / edited by Istvan Kecskes.

Summary

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 volume is organized in three sections: Research Base for Practice, Integrating Culture and Language and Acquisition of Language Structures. One of the central contributions of the book is that each paper brings together theory and practice. Thus the book is recommended to both researchers and language practitioners.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):De Gruyter Mouton
  • Place of Publication:Berlin
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (ix, 283 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781614512554, 1614513147, 9781614513148, 1614512558
  • oclc:ocn857080825
  • LC Classification:PL1065
  • Dewey Decimal:495.1/80071

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Research base for practice. Developing Chinese oral skills -- a research base for practice / Jane Orton -- Asymmetric style of communication in Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction / Ping Yang -- Learning tones cooperatively in the CSL classroom : a proposal / Wang Chen -- Chapter 2: Integrating culture and language. Integrating culture and language in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom : a view from the bottom up / Ned Danison -- Analysis of pragmatic functions of Chinese cultural markers / Xiaolu Wang and Tingting Ma -- Gestures as tone markers in multilingual communication / Chun-Mei Chen -- The collaborative construction of culture knowledge in a Chinese movie class / Ying Liu -- 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 / Wen Xiong -- Acquisition of Chinese relative clauses at the initial stage / Yi Xu -- Conceptual similarities in languages -- evidence from English "be going to" and its Chinese counterparts / Zi-Yu Lin -- SLA of Mandarin nominal syntax : emergence order in the early stages / Helen Charters.

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