Contributors to the volume; Introduction; Chapter 1: Research base for practice; Developing Chinese oral skills -- A research base for practice; Asymmetric style of communication in Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction; Learning tones cooperatively in the CSL classroom: A proposal; Chapter 2: Integrating culture and language; Integrating culture and language in the Chinese as a foreign language 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 culture knowledge in a Chinese movie classChapter 3: Acquisition of language structures; 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
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 pr
