Chinese Language Education and Second Language Chinese Acquisition

Introduction

Part 1: Chinese Language Education along Linguistic Approaches 1. Sociolinguistic approach to Chinese language education: Research of learning Chinese as an additional language 2. Functional linguistic approach to Chinese language education: Application of Systemic Functional Linguistic approach to Chinese language (in) education in Hong Kong 3. Corpus linguistic approach to Chinese language education: Corpus linguistics and the acquisition of Chinese as a second language 4. Neurolinguistic approach to Chinese language education Part 2: L2 Chinese Acquisition Research from Linguistic Perspectives 5. Character transposition effects on the recognition of Chinese compound words among native readers and learners of Chinese 6. Linguistics-based research on L2 Chinese phonology 7. Linguistics-based research on L2 Chinese pragmatics: Assessing pragmatic routines in L2 Chinese with a focus on rating scale functioning and rater behavior 8. Linguistics-based research on L2 Chinese syntax: Learning grammatical aspect in Chinese 9. Investigating question-bearing sentence-final particles in L2 and heritage learners' Chinese grammars: A syntactic analysis 10. The effects of Chinese compound characters' neighborhood size and consistency on reading mono- and di-character words by native and nonnative speakers of Chinese Part 3: Linguistics-inspired Technology Application in Chinese Language Educational Settings 11. Linguistics-inspired technology-assisted character learning 12. Linguistics-inspired technology-assisted development of Chinese reading materials: Challenges and prospects of corpus-assisted development of Chinese cultural history reader for non-Chinese speaking learners