Chinese as a Second Language Research from Different Angles / / edited by Istvan Kecskes, Hang Zhang.

• Superior document: Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Kecskés, István,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Language Learning and Multilingualism ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 pages)

A crucial question for Chinese as a Second Language research is how to help elevate Chinese language teaching methodology to the level of other world language methodologies such as English, Spanish and German. This work goes in two directs. One explores how to apply research results achieved in Chinese linguistics to Chinese language teaching and the other is engaged in creating a strong applied linguistics research field that supports Chinese language teaching. CASLAR scholars are mainly involved in the latter one. This book is a representative sample of their research endeavors.

Table of Contents

Prologue -- Aknowledgement -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 A Corpus-Based Study on Web-Based Chinese Lettered Words --   Jing Wu -- 2 Identifying Polysyllabic Legal Terms in Audio-Visual Materials --   Shaoming Wang, Shan Wang and Runzhe Zhan -- 3 The Recognition of Situation-Bound Utterances: Testing Receptive Pragmatic Knowledge in Chinese as a Foreign Language --   Sergio Conti -- 4 Exploring the Pragmalinguistic Knowledge of the 是 shì … çš„ de Cleft Construction in L1 Italian Learners' L2 Chinese: Triangulation of Corpus and Experimental Data --   Alessia Iurato -- 5 Spatial Anchoring and Narrative Structure in L2 Chinese --   Arnaud Arslangul -- 6 L2 Learner's Usage of Null Subject in Three Types of Chinese Complex Sentences --   Lan Zhang -- 7 Using Differentiated Instruction to Teach the "被 Bei" Structure in a Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) Class --   Fan Yang -- 8 Using Machine Translation to Enhance the Learning of Chinese Resultative Complement Constructions in the CFL Classroom: An Exploration of Pre-editing and Post-editing Strategies for Accurate Translation --   Xuan Yang and Caitríona Osborne -- 9 Pronunciation—a Neglected Topic in Textbooks of Standard Chinese? --   Hana TÅ™ísková -- 10 Exploring Oral Proficiency Profiles of Advanced L2 Chinese Speakers: a Mixed-Methods Study --   Yu Wu -- 11 Teaching Real-World Listening: Chinese Second/Foreign Language Teachers' Perspectives and Practices --   Lu Han, Xiang Li, Elvis Wagner -- 12 A Mandarin Placement Test with Formative Orientation and the Deployment of its First Version --   Ping-Hsueh Chen, Rui Yan, Yuhe Tang and Mariarosaria Gianninoto -- Index.