Research in Chinese as a Second Language

295 Pages·2013·3.071 MB·

by  Istvan Kecskes

Istvan Kecskes (Ed.)
Research in Chinese as a Second Language
Trends in Applied Linguistics
Edited by
Ulrike Jessner
Claire Kramsch
Volume 9
Research in
Chinese as a
Second Language
Edited by
Istvan Kecskes
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Table of contents
Contributorstothevolume vii
Introduction 1
Chapter1: Researchbaseforpractice
JaneOrton
DevelopingChineseoralskills–Aresearchbaseforpractice 9
PingYang
AsymmetricstyleofcommunicationinMandarinChinese
talk-in-interaction 33
WangChen
LearningtonescooperativelyintheCSLclassroom:Aproposal 65
Chapter2: Integratingcultureandlanguage
NedDanison
IntegratingcultureandlanguageintheChineseasaforeignlanguage
classroom:Aviewfromthebottomup 81
XiaoluWangandTingtingMa
AnalysisofpragmaticfunctionsofChineseculturalmarkers 115
Chun-MeiChen
Gesturesastonemarkersinmultilingualcommunication 143
YingLiu
ThecollaborativeconstructionofcultureknowledgeinaChinese
movieclass 169
Chapter3: Acquisitionoflanguagestructures
WenXiong
TheacquisitionofChinesemodalauxiliaryNengVerbGroup(NVG):
AcasestudyofanEnglishL2learnerofChinese 187
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YiXu
AcquisitionofChineserelativeclausesattheinitialstage 215
Zi-YuLin
Conceptualsimilaritiesinlanguages–EvidencefromEnglish
“begoingto”anditsChinesecounterparts 235
HelenCharters
SLAofMandarinnominalsyntax:Emergenceorderintheearlystages 257
Index 281
Contributors to the volume
Chun-Mei Chen is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of
Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.
ShereceivedherPh.D.inLinguisticsfromTheUniversityofTexasatAustin,spe-
cializing in phonetics, phonology, prosody, and Austronesian languages. Her
currentresearchinterestsincludeteachingandlearningChineseinaglobalcon-
text,phoneticsandphonologyofChineseasasecondlanguage,andpragmatics
ofL2learners’interlanguage.
WangChenstudiedEnglisheducationinBeijinganddevelopedastronginterest
in TCFL from helping her non-Chinese colleagues learn her mother tongue. She
then became a professional Chinese teacher. This experience broadened her
horizons and brought her to Germany to continue studying foreign language
teachingmethodology.Sheisnowworkingontheadaptationofwesternresults
forlanguageacquisitiontoChinese.
HelenChartersteachesGeneralLinguisticsandFormalSyntaxattheUniversity
of Auckland, NZ. Her research interests include the Second Language Acquisi-
tion of Syntax in Mandarin, and in other lesser-studied languages; syntactic
analysis mainly in an LFG framework; natural language processing, and the
relationshipsbetweendiscoursestructureandsyntax.
Ned Danison is a doctoral student at The University at Albany, New York. He
hastaughtEnglishasaSecondlanguagefor20years.Hisresearchinterestsare
interculturalcommunicationandtheteachingandlearningofChineselanguage
andculture.
Zi-yuLinhasanM.A.inEnglishfromBostonUniversity,anM.A.andaPh.D.in
Linguistics, and an MLS from the University at Buffalo. He earned his tenure at
Seton Hall University, New Jersey in 2000. Since 2004, he has been the Library
DirectorandProfessorofLanguagesandTranslationofMacaoPolytechnicInsti-
tute, Macao. His research interests include linguistics, translation studies and
libraryscience.
Ying Liugot her M.A. degree in Chinese pedagogy at the Ohio State University
in 2008, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Ohio State University. Her
research has focused on Chinese pedagogy, and she has a special interest in
theroleofcultureinalanguageprogram.
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TingtingMareceivedherB.A.degreeinteachingChineseasasecondlanguage
fromShanxiNormalUniversity,Chinain2009andreceivedherMasterdegreein
teachingChinesetospeakersofotherlanguagesfromZhejiangUniversity,China
in2011.SheiscurrentlyworkingonChineseTeachingasasecondlanguage.Her
researchinterestsincludeChineseteachingandpragmatics.
Jane OrtonisDirectorof theChinese TeacherTraining CentreintheMelbourne
GraduateSchoolofEducation,whereshecoordinatedmodernlanguageseduca-
tion for twenty years. Her research interests are intercultural communication
and nonverbal communication. Recent publications include:The Current State
of Chinese Language Education in Australian Schools, 3rd edn. Melbourne: Asia
Education Foundation, 2010; Educating Chinese Language Teachers – Some
Fundamentals, in Linda H.Tsung and Ken Cruikshank,Teaching and Learning
Chinese in Global Contexts. London, UK: Continuum, 2010; and 3 chapters
(English and the Chinese Quest; ‘Just a tool’: the role of English in the curri-
culum; East Goes West) in China and English: Globalization and Dilemmas of
Identity,Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2009,which she co-edited with Joseph
LoBiancoandYihongGao.
XiaoluWangisProfessorofLinguisticsatSchoolofInternationalStudies(SIS),
ZhejiangUniversity,China,wheresheteachesbothgraduateandundergraduate
coursesinpsycholinguistics,andTEFL/TESLandTCFL/TCSL.Hermainacademic
interest lies in neuro-mechanism of Chinese metaphorical cognition, on which
sheisnowconductingaChinanationalproject.HerbookChineseMetaphorical
Cognition & Its ERP Imaging (2009) has become well-known both in China and
abroad.
Wen Xiong is an Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Rhode
Island, U.S.A. She earned her Ph.D. from La Trobe University in Melbourne,
Australia. Prior to her time in Australia, Dr. Xiong had been an Associate Pro-
fessor of Chinese Language and Literature at Shanghai University. Dr. Xiong’s
research interests focus on the learning and teaching of Chinese as a second
or foreign language and the acquisition of Chinese language and culture. Her
publicationsaddressthefollowingresearchareas:secondlanguageacquisition,
Chineselinguistics,languagecontrast,languageteachingandcurriculumdesign,
andChineseculturalstudies.
YiXuisanAssistantProfessorinChineseLanguageandLinguisticsattheUni-
versity of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Her research directions include Chinese language
grammar,psycholinguisticaspectsofsecondlanguageacquisition,corpuslinguis-
tics and computer-assisted language learning. She has published three single-
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authoredpapersfocusingonChineselinguistics,ESLandsecondlanguageacqui-
sitioninjournals,books,andproceedings,andhastwootherarticlesforthcoming.
Ping Yang received a Ph.D. in linguistics from Macquarie University and is a
lecturer in linguistics at the University of Western Sydney. His teaching areas
include linguistics, translation and TESOL. His research areas include inter-
cultural communication, nonverbal communication, gesture and culture, cross-
cultural perspectives of language teaching and learning. He has published in
Chinese Language and Discourse, Journal of Intercultural Communication,Text
&Talk,andSemiotica.