The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition

472 Pages·2018·4.66 MB·English

by  Chuanren Ke

The Routledge Handbook of
Chinese Second
Language Acquisition
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is the first reference work of
its kind.
The handbook contains twenty contributions from leading experts in the field of Chinese
SLA, covering a wide range of topics such as social contexts, linguistic perspectives, skill learning,
individual differences and learning settings and testing.
Each chapter covers historical perspectives, core issues and key findings, research approaches,
pedagogical implications, future research direction and additional references.
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is an essential reference for
Chinese language teachers and researchers in Chinese applied linguistics and second language
acquisition.
Chuanren Ke is Professor of Chinese and Second Language Acquisition and Director of both
the SLA PhD Program (FLARE) and the Confucius Institute at the University of Iowa.
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The Routledge Handbook
of Chinese Second
Language Acquisition
Edited by Chuanren Ke
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Chuanren, Ke, 1954- editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of Chinese second language acquisition /
edited by Chuanren Ke.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017045951| ISBN 9781138946606
(hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315670706 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Chinese language—Study and teaching—Foreign
speakers. | Second language acquisition—Research.
Classification: LCC PL1065 .R68 2018 | DDC 495.180071—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017045951
ISBN: 978-1-138-94660-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-67070-6 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo
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Contents
List of tables vii
List of contributors ix
Chinese SLA: introduction and future directions 1
Chuanren Ke
PART I
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study
of second language Chinese 9
1 Neurocognitive approaches to Chinese second language learning 11
Ping Li and Jing Yang
2 Cognitive linguistics approaches to Chinese second language acquisition 31
Ning Yu and Ben Pin-Yun Wang
3 Corpus-based research in Chinese as a second language 48
Jie Zhang and Hongyin Tao
4 Linguistic theories and teaching Chinese as a second language 63
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Xinjia Peng
5 Chinese second language socialization 82
Patricia A. Duff and Liam Doherty
PART II
L2 Chinese skills development 101
6 Research on L2 Chinese character acquisition 103
Tianlu Zhang and Chuanren Ke
7 Chinese as a second language reading: lexical access and text comprehension 134
Helen H. Shen
8 L2 Chinese grammar development 151
Yuan Lu and Chuanren Ke
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Contents
9 Current trends in research of Chinese sound acquisition 217
Hang Zhang
10 Acquisition and assessment of L2 Chinese speaking 234
Jianling Liao
11 Pragmatics learning and teaching in L2 Chinese 261
Li Yang
12 Chinese listening comprehension: research and pedagogy 279
Wei Cai
PART III
Sociocontextual factors and individual differences
in L2 Chinese development 299
13 Chinese language acquisition in study abroad contexts 301
Celeste Kinginger, Qian Wu, and Sheng-Hsun Lee
14 Learning Chinese as a heritage language in postsecondary contexts 318
Duanduan Li and Patricia A. Duff
15 A non-linear view on interactional competence: speaking Chinese
as a heritage language 336
Agnes Weiyun He
16 Motivation and Chinese second language acquisition 352
Xiaohong Wen
17 Foreign language anxiety: the case of learning Chinese 373
Han Luo
PART IV
Classroom instruction and technology 391
18 Implicit and explicit learning, knowledge, and instruction
in CFL studies 393
Hong Gang Jin
19 Form-focused instruction and task-based language teaching in
Chinese as a second language 415
Fangyuan Yuan
20 Technology and the teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language 432
Jun Da and Yanqun Zheng
Subject index 448
Author index 455
vi
List of tables
2.1 Top two subtypes of the ba-construction in frequency ranking 39
5.1 Studies on Chinese language socialization 88
6.1 Four semantic priming conditions 106
6.2 Four character types 108
6.3 Five character learning groups 117
8.1 Functions and sentence examples of the adverb jiù 155
8.2 Functions and sentence examples of the adverb yòu 156
8.3 Function, schematic pattern, and examples of the particle de 160
8.4 Type, schematic pattern, and examples of Chinese DCs 164
8.5 Canonical word order, head-directionality parameter, and RClause
surface structure 176
8.6 Target pairs of Chinese connectives in Y. Lu’s (2017) research 180
9.1 The four lexical tones of standard Mandarin Chinese in isolation 218
9.2 The three allophones of Tone 3 224
16.1 Constructs and scales from the AMTB 353
16.2 Multiple regression analyses: future studies across proficiency levels 358
16.3 S tudies adapting the AMTB to focus on comparisons of Asian
background learners 364
16.4 Chinese L2 studies conducted under a mixed-methods approach 366
17.1 FL anxiety, oral proficiency and HSK scores 377
17.2 Reading anxiety and general learning anxiety of the three
subgroups 379
18.1 Implicit and explicit instruction 396
18.2 Types of implicit and explicit instruction 397
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List of contributors
Wei Cai is an associate professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. She specializes in second
language acquisition. Her current research focus is on second language listening, vocabulary
acquisition, learner strategies, and materials evaluation and production.
Jun Da is Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics at Middle Tennessee State University. He
received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Texas, Austin. His research interests
include computer-assisted language learning, second language acquisition, and language teaching
methodologies.
Liam Doherty is a doctoral student in Language and Literacy Education at UBC. His research
examines agency, socialization, and mobile technologies in Chinese language learning and use.
Recent research topics have included Chinese learner agency and narrative language socialization
through popular television dramas.
Patricia (Patsy) A. Duff is a professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at
the University of British Columbia, where she teaches applied linguistics courses and conducts
research on the teaching, learning, socialization, and use of English and Chinese in various local
and global settings.
Agnes Weiyun He is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Founder/Director of the Center for
Multilingual and Intercultural Communication, and Chair of Department of Asian and Asian-
American Studies at Stony Brook University. A Guggenheim Fellow, her current research is
funded by the National Science Foundation (US).
Hong Gang Jin is currently Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts and
Humanities at the University of Macau. She also served for 25 years as William R. Kenan Professor
and Full Professor in the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department at Hamilton College
in the US.
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt is an associate professor of Chinese Linguistics at the University of Oregon.
She teaches and researches at the interface of grammar, language use, human emotion, social
structure, and history. Her research is based on corpus data and quantitative methods.
Chuanren Ke is a professor in the Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures at
the University of Iowa, USA and Zijiang Chair Professor at East China Normal University in
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