Research in Chinese as a Second Language / / ed. by Istvan Kecskes.

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 consist...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] , 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (283 p.)
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Table of 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
  • Asymmetrical style of communication in Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction: Pedagogical implications for TCSOL professionals
  • Learning tones cooperatively in the CSL classroom: A proposal
  • Chapter 2: Integrating culture and language
  • Integrating culture and language in the CFL 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 cultural knowledge in a Chinese movie class
  • 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
  • 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