Grammatical Development of Chinese Among Non-Native Speakers: From a Processability Account

238 Pages·2013·1.12 MB·English

by  Xiaojing (Queeny) Wang

Grammatical Development of Chinese
among Non-native Speakers

Grammatical Development of Chinese
among Non-native Speakers:
From a Processability Account
By
Xiaojing Wang
Grammatical Development of Chinese among Non-native Speakers:
From a Processability Account,
by Xiaojing Wang
This book first published 2013
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Copyright © 2013 by Xiaojing Wang
All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
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ISBN (10): 1-4438-4958-8, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4958-6
I would like to dedicate this book to my beloved parents
Mr. Ao Wang and Ms. Qin Wang
My grandparent and granduncle
Mr. Jing An Wang and Mr. Ming Cao
And all my family members

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Tables .............................................................................................. ix
List of Figures............................................................................................. xi
Preface ....................................................................................................... xii
Acknowledgments .................................................................................... xiv
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ......................................................... xv
Part I: Research Background and Application of Processability
Theory on Chinese
Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2
Introduction: The Wider Context
Chapter Two ................................................................................................ 7
Theoretical Foundation of Processability Theory: A Review of Literature
Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 41
Chinese: A Review
Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 63
Studies of Chinese as a Second Language
Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 88
Research Contexts
Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 92
Methodological Issues
Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 128
Acquisition Route Analysis and Discussion
viii Table of Contents
Part II: Task Design
Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 172
Task-based Material Design
Chapter Nine ............................................................................................ 189
Summary and Conclusion
References ............................................................................................... 195
Appendix A ............................................................................................. 214
Teaching Syllabus
Appendix B .............................................................................................. 216
Teachingba Structure
Appendix C .............................................................................................. 218
Sample Extracts
LIST OF TABLES
Table 2-1 ESL processing procedures
Table 2-2 Processability hierarchy and grammatical development
Table 2-3 Processing procedures applied to Japanese
Table 3-1 Variety of topicalization in Chinese
Table 4-1 Acquisition stage of 22 Chinese structures among CSL learners
Table 4-2 Topic Hypothesis of L2 syntax
Table 4-3 Chinese grammatical development in PT
Table 4-4 Summary of New Zealand and China studies
Table 4-5 Chinese grammatical development in PT in Gao (2005)
Table 4-6 Comparison of Zhang’s (2001), Gao’s (2005) and Zhang’s (2008)
studies
Table 4-7 Findings of Zhang’s (2001), Gao’s (2005) and Zhang’s (2008)
studies
Table 4-8 Account of updated PT stages in Chinese
Table 6-1 Task variety
Table 6-2 Overview of tasks
Table 6-3 Task dimensions
Table 7-1 Marilyn’s acquisition route
Table 7-2 Marilyn’s language production
Table 7-3 Jay’s language production
Table 7-4 Flora’s acquisition route
Table 7-5 Flora’s language production
Table 7-6 Henry’s acquisition route
Table 7-7 Henry’s language production
Table 7-8 Sting’s language production
Table 7-9 Cathy’s language production
Table 7-10 Updated PT stages in Chinese
Table 7-11 Further updated PT stages in Chinese
Table 7-12 All participants’ acquisition statuses of Chinese on Wk12
Table 7-13 CSL textbook in Canberra University (New Practical Chinese
Reader 1)
Table 7-14 CSL textbook in current study (Integrated Chinese 1)
Table 7-15 Comparison between teaching route and acquisition profile
Table 7-16 CSL textbook (Han Yu Jiao Cheng) [Chinese Teaching Textbook]
Table 8-1 Distributional analysis of Picture Differences Task