Studies on Learning and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Xiaohong Wen is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of Chinese Studies at the University of Houston. Her research interests include L2 motivation, L2 Chinese acquisition, and interlanguage pragmatics. Recent publications include three academic books and over thirty articles in refereed journals. She has been the principal investigator for several major federal and internal grants. Xin Jiang is Professor at Beijing Language and Culture University. She specializes in the cognitive processing and acquisition of Chinese as a second language, focusing on the psycholinguistic factors influencing L2 Chinese lexical processing and text comprehension. She has published two academic books (Research on L2 Acquisition of Chinese Characters, Words, and Reading; The Psychological Studies of Learning and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language) and over thirty journal articles.

Contents






Research in Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: An introduction
Xiaohong Wen




Heterogeneity of Early Language Experiences and Word-knowledge Development in Chinese as a Heritage Language Learners
Haomin Zhang and Keiko Koda




Requests in Chinese by Heritage and Foreign Language Learners
Xiaohong Wen




Context and Chinese Colloquial Idiom Comprehension
Yu Li




L1 Influence on Coherence-building Skills in L2 Chinese Reading
Liu Li




Processing Relative Clauses in Chinese as a Second Language
Yun Yao




An Inter-Tonal Effect in Second Language Chinese Contour Tones
Hang Zhang




L2 Acquisition of ZaiP by Native English Speakers
Yang Zhao and Tingna Liu




Functional Perspective of Chinese Learners’ Language Use on Social Media
Shenggao Wang




Student-teacher Goal Alignment: Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Determining Its Effect on Interaction and Motivation
Zhongqi Shi, Xiaodong Lin, and Ruobing Wei




Measurement Quality of an Instructor-developed CFL Summative Assessment Instrument: An Exploratory Pilot Study

Shuai Li