Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language - A Pedagogical Grammar : A Pedagogical Grammar

Preface ix 1 Preliminaries 1(28) 1.1 Aims of This Book 1(2) 1.2 Chinese Grammar and Pedagogical Grammar of Chinese 3(2) 1.3 Prior and Current Work on Language Pedagogy and Acquisition 5(6) 1.4 Where and Who? 11(7) 1.5 Standards and Assessment 18(8) 1.6 Mandarin vs. Other Dialects 26(1) 1.7 Summary and Outline of the Book 27(2) 2 Pedagogical Grammar of Chinese: Content 29(32) 2.1 Introduction 29(1) 2.2 Curriculum 30(10) 2.3 Teaching Materials 40(12) 2.4 Stratification of Pedagogical Grammar of Chinese 52(6) 2.5 Authenticity 58(1) 2.6 Conclusion 59(2) 3 Methodology 61(26) 3.1 Introduction 61(2) 3.2 Chinese Methods (in China) 63(2) 3.3 Non-Chinese Methods (outside China) 65(6) 3.4 Suggested Model 71(11) 3.5 Characteristics of Classes 82(2) 3.6 Accuracy 84(2) 3.7 Conclusion 86(1) 4 Pronunciation 87(14) 4.1 Introduction 87(3) 4.2 Common Teaching and Learning Models 90(2) 4.3 Difficulties in Acquisition 92(2) 4.4 Suggested Model for Teaching and Learning 94(5) 4.5 Conclusion 99(2) 5 Characters and Words 101(32) 5.1 Introduction 101(5) 5.2 Structure of Characters 106(10) 5.3 Characteristics of ci 116(9) 5.4 Difficulties in Acquisition 125(1) 5.5 Suggested Teaching and Learning Models 125(5) 5.6 Words and References 130(2) 5.7 Conclusion 132(1) 6 Sentences 133(32) 6.1 Introduction 133(1) 6.2 Acquisition of Basic Sentences 134(10) 6.3 Acquisition of Unique Sentences 144(16) 6.4 Acquisition of Nominal Clauses 160(4) 6.5 Conclusion 164(1) 7 Discourse and Pragmatics 165(72) 7.1 Introduction 165(1) 7.2 Discourse Devices 166(35) 7.3 Discourse Modes 201(15) 7.4 Discourse Style 216(17) 7.5 Interpretation and Pragmatics 233(1) 7.6 Conclusion 234(3) 8 Culture in Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language 237(28) 8.1 Introduction 237(1) 8.2 Cultural Content and Language Proficiency 238(4) 8.3 Teaching and Learning Chinese Culture in Language Classes 242(17) 8.4 Learning Activities 259(1) 8.5 Teaching Strategies 260(2) 8.6 Assessment 262(1) 8.7 Conclusion 263(2) 9 Conclusion 265(10) 9.1 Introduction 265(1) 9.2 (Un)commonness of Chinese 265(2) 9.3 Further Remarks on Teaching and Learning 267(1) 9.4 Resources for Learning Chinese 268(4) 9.5 Directions for Future Work 272(3) Appendices Appendix I 275(3) Appendix II 278(3) Appendix III 281(1) Appendix IV 282(3) Appendix V 285(1) Appendix VI 286(2) Appendix VII 288(3) Notes 291(4) References 295(24) Index 319