Developing Writing Competence in L2 Chinese Classrooms

Li Yang is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State University, USA. She conducts research on second language acquisition of Chinese, focused on interlanguage pragmatics and second language writing. Laura Valentín-Rivera is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State University, USA. Her academic interests include Spanish applied linguistics, heritage language learners’ literacy skills and collaboration mediated by social tools, and Spanish in the United States.

Contributors



Acknowledgments



Li Yang and Laura Valentín-Rivera: Contextualizing the Importance of Writing: A Call for Action in L2 Chinese Classrooms



Chapter 1. Shuyi Yang: Writing Processes and Products of Chinese as Heritage and Foreign Language Learners



Chapter 2. Brian Olovson and Sha Huang: Collaborative Writing in a Tertiary Chinese as a Foreign Language Classroom: Processes and Products



Chapter 3. Li Yang and Zenan Zhao: Learners’ Writing Strategies in L2 Chinese: A Cross-Sectional Study



Chapter 4. Xiaofei Pan: Investigating Nominal Structures in L2 Chinese Writing: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective



Chapter 5. Jia Lin and Gengsong Gao: Exploring L2 Chinese Learners’ Connective Usage in Writing: An Error Analysis Approach



Chapter 6. Lijuan Ye: Facebook as a Mediator for L2 Chinese Writing: Practices and Perceptions



Chapter 7. Laura Valentín-Rivera: The Efficacy of Teachers’ Written Corrective Feedback in the L2 Chinese Classroom: Learner Perceptions and Preferences



Chapter 8. Daniel Román-Zúñiga, Idoia Elola and Raychel Vasseur: L2 Writing under Pandemic Conditions: How Do Chinese and Spanish Instructors Adapt?



Li Yang and Laura Valentín-Rivera: Concluding Remarks



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