Explorations into Chinese as a Second Language

ISTVAN KECSKES is Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York System, USA. He is the President of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) and the CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) Association. Dr. Kecskes’ is the founding editor of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics, a book series in Pragmatics as well as the bilingual (Chinese-English) journal CASLAR.

Introduction.- Part I Explorations into the Structure of Chinese.- Chapter 1 De-stress in Mandarin: Clitics, Cliticoids and Phonetic Chunks /Hana Trísková.- Chapter 2 From Phonological Studies to Teaching Mandarin Tones: Some Perspectives on the Revision of the Tonal Inventory /Carlotta Sparvoli.- Chapter 3 The Comparison of Hungarian and Chinese Phonological Systems: A Pedagogical Perspective/Qiuyue Ye & Huba Bartos.- Chapter 4 Analysis of Chinese as Second Language Learners' Interpretations of Noun-Noun Compounds/Shuyi Yang.- Chapter 5 Information Encoding, Chinese Word Order and CSLA: A Cognitive-Functional Account/Anna Morbiato.- Part II Explorations into Learners of Chinese.- Chapter 6 Learners' and Teachers' Beliefs about Learning Tones and Pinyin/Juan Yang  & Jane Medwell.- Chapter 7 Toward a Corpus of Chinese Classroom Teacher Language/Xia Cui.- Chapter 8 Difficulties and Expectations of First Level Chinese Second Language Learners/Gloria Gabbianelli & Agnese Formica.- Chapter 9 Expressing Necessity in Chinese: A Pilot Study/Shuyi Eagle.- Index.

"The book is a remarkable resource which represents a comprehensive account of issues in the acquisition, use, teaching, and development of Chinese as a second language. ... the book serves as a valuable resource, not only for second language researchers, especially those of CSL, but also for teachers, educators, and curriculum developers looking to learn and understand more about second language theories and methods for practically applying them in the field of Chinese as a second language." (Zhiqi Gong, Chinese Language and Discourse, Vol. 8 (2), 2017)

“The book is a remarkable resource which represents a comprehensive account of issues in the acquisition, use, teaching, and development of Chinese as a second language. … the book serves as a valuable resource, not only for second language researchers, especially those of CSL, but also for teachers, educators, and curriculum developers looking to learn and understand more about second language theories and methods for practically applying them in the field of Chinese as a second language.” (Zhiqi Gong, Chinese Language and Discourse, Vol. 8 (2), 2017)