: Istvan Kecskes
: Research in Chinese as a Second Language
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9781614512554
: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 124.30
:
: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 292
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The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resulted
in the development of a strong research framework for the discipline. The
book 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.


< >Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, Albany, USA.
Contributors to the volume7
Introduction11
Chapter 1: Research base for practice17
Developing Chinese oral skills - A research base for practice19
Asymmetric style of communication in Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction43
Learning tones cooperatively in the CSL classroom: A proposal75
Chapter 2: Integrating culture and language89
Integrating culture and language in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom: A view from the bottom up91
Analysis of pragmatic functions of Chinese cultural markers125
Gestures as tone markers in multilingual communication153
The collaborative construction of culture knowledge in a Chinese movie class179
Chapter 3: Acquisition of language structures195
The acquisition of Chinese modal auxiliary Neng Verb Group (NVG): A case study of an English L2 learner of Chinese197
Acquisition of Chinese relative clauses at the initial stage225
Conceptual similarities in languages - Evidence from English “be going to” and its Chinese counterparts245
SLA of Mandarin nominal syntax: Emergence order in the early stages267
Index291