Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language

Wenying Jiang

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language

Wenying Jiang

Volume 38 in the series Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216196

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About this book

Research in the field of Chinese as a second/foreign language (L2) acquisition, at present, does not match the increasing demand to learn Chinese as an L2, given that Chinese is the fastest growing foreign language in countries such as Japan, South Korea, the United States, Canada, UK and Australia.

Particularly, research in Chinese L2 word order acquisition requires more attention because word order plays a more complex role in Chinese than in English due to the fact that Chinese relies heavily on word order for information structuring. Experience with Chinese L2 learning and teaching shows that Chinese word order errors are a significant problem with adult English-speaking learners. However, Chinese L2 researchers and teachers are left with no means to adequately describe and explain these errors for instruction purposes.

This book is specifically written to provide such a means for them to understand Chinese word order, to describe and explain Chinese word order errors and also to help treat such errors in L2 classrooms. The centrality of word order in Chinese grammar and the emerging popularity of learning Chinese L2 make this book an important resource for both the learner and the teacher.

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Wenying Jiang, University of Alberta, Canada.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
List of tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
List of abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XV
Chapter One: Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter Two: Review of the literature (1). Theoretical approaches to L2 word order acquisition research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter Three: Review of the literature (2). Chinese L2 word order acquisition, word order errors and word order principles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter Four: Research methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter Five: The Study Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter Six: A principle-based taxonomy of Chinese L2 word order errors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter Seven: Chinese word order errors: frequency of occurrence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists and Students of Chinese Linguistics, Teachers of Chinese as a Foreign Language, Academic Libraries and Research Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Tables: 25
Keywords: Chinese/ Language; Language Acquisition; Word Order

eBook

Published: September 4, 2009
ISBN: 9783110216196

Hardcover

Published: September 16, 2009
ISBN: 9783110216189