Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language / / Wenying Jiang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Jiang, Wenying ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 38
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

Research in the field of Chinese as a second/foreign language (L2) acquisition, at present, does not match the increasing demand to learn Chinese as an L2, given that Chinese is the fastest growing foreign language in countries such as Japan, South Korea, the United States, Canada, UK and Australia....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• List of tables
• List of abbreviations
• Chapter One: Introduction
• Chapter Two: Review of the literature (1). Theoretical approaches to L2 word order acquisition research
• Chapter Three: Review of the literature (2). Chinese L2 word order acquisition, word order errors and word order principles
• Chapter Four: Research methodology
• Chapter Five: The Study
• Chapter Six: A principle-based taxonomy of Chinese L2 word order errors
• Chapter Seven: Chinese word order errors: frequency of occurrence
• Chapter Eight: Conclusion
• Backmatter