Overview
- Presents research that will help both researchers and practitioners better understand the acquisition, development and use of Chinese as a Second Language and its learners
- Brings together theory and practice by focusing on theory-building based on practice or theory application in practice
- Offers contributions from an international group of scholars, which reflects the increasing importance of Chinese as a world language
Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 31)
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This volume explores how linguistic research can support the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language. It responds to a rapidly growing interest in the Chinese language all over the world, and answers the need for a strong research background for the discipline. Without that, Chinese language learning remains only a unique experience and/or a useful education challenge.
The first section explores crucial issues about the structure and use of Chinese as a Second Language such as word-order, noun-noun compounds, meaning-making in writing, pronunciation and stress and tone. The second section explores the learning of Chinese by seeking answer to questions about difficulties, expectations, beliefs, use of corpus and learning how to express necessity.
The authors coming from eight different countries demonstrate how existing knowledge has been generated, bring together different lines of research, point out tendencies in the field, demonstrate and explain what tools and methods researchers can use to address major issues in the field, and give direction to what future research should focus on.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Explorations into the Structure and Use of Chinese as a Second Language
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Explorations into the Learning of Chinese as a Second Language
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Book Title: Explorations into Chinese as a Second Language
Editors: Istvan Kecskes
Series Title: Educational Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54027-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54026-9Published: 06 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85300-0Published: 12 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54027-6Published: 23 June 2017
Series ISSN: 1572-0292
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 224
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Phonology and Phonetics, Higher Education, Chinese