Research in Chinese as a second language /

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 volum...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Kecskes, Istvan
Published: De Gruyter Mouton,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2013]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Trends in applied linguistics [tal]; 9
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781614512554
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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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(ix,283pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9781614512554
Index Number: PL1065
CLC: H195
Contents: Frontmatter --
Table of contents --
Contributors to the volume --
Introduction --
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 /
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 /
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.