Explorations into Chinese as a Second Language

by István Kecskés (Editor)

Introduction.- Part I Explorations into the Structure of Chinese.- Chapter 1 De-stress in Clitics, Cliticoids and Phonetic Chunks /Hana Třísková.- Chapter 2 From Phonological Studies to Teaching Mandarin Some Perspectives on the Revision of the Tonal Inventory /Carlotta Sparvoli.- Chapter 3 The Comparison of Hungarian and Chinese Phonological 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 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 A Pilot Study/Shuyi Eagle.- Index.

242 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

István Kecskés was a Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, USA. He taught graduate courses in pragmatics, second language acquisition and bilingualism at SUNY, Albany. He was the President of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) and the CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) Association. He was the founder and co-director of the Barcelona Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism (until 2016), and the founder and co-director of Sorbonne, Paris – SUNY, Albany Graduate Student Symposium.