Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language
By: by Wenying Jiang
Series: Studies on language acquisition -- 38; Studies on language acquisition -- 38.
Publisher: M. de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9783110216196
Subjects: Foreign speakers; Study and teaching; Second language acquisition; Chinese language; Chinese; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY; Word order
Description: In this book, linguistic achievements of word order studies in Chinese have been applied to Chinese second language acquisition research. By analyzing a great number of word order errors made by learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), this book has developed a method for describing and explaining Chinese word order errors. With this method, the book has the potential to empower CFL teachers all over the world to teach Chinese in an informed manner, and particularly to teach Chinese word order more effectively and efficiently.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains some Chinese text with English translation.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Literature review (1) : theoretical approaches applied in L2 word order acquisition research; title: Literature review (2) : Chinese L2 word order acquisition, word order errors and word order principles; title: Research methodology; title: The study; title: A principle-based taxonomy of Chinese L2 word order errors; title: Chinese L2 word order errors : relative frequency of occurrence; title: Conclusion.