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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Title: </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Explorations into Chinese as a Second Language</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Editor: </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#333333">Istvan Kecskes</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ISBN: 978-3-319-54026-9<br>
Hardback Price: $99.99</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">URL: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319540269</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">About the book: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black; background:white">This volume explores how linguistic research can support the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language. It responds to a rapidly growing interest in the Chinese language
all over the world, and answers the need for a strong research background for the discipline. Without that, Chinese language learning remains only a unique experience and/or a useful education challenge.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">The first section explores crucial issues about the structure and use of Chinese as a Second Language such as word-order, noun-noun compounds, meaning-making in writing, pronunciation
and stress and tone. The second section explores the learning of Chinese by seeking answer to questions about difficulties, expectations, beliefs, use of corpus and learning how to express necessity.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black; background:white">The authors coming from eight different countries demonstrate how existing knowledge has been generated, bring together different lines of research, point out tendencies in the
field, demonstrate and explain what tools and methods researchers can use to address major issues in the field, and give direction to what future research should focus on.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Table of contents: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Introduction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Part I Explorations into the Structure of Chinese.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Chapter 1 De-stress in Mandarin: Clitics, Cliticoids and Phonetic Chunks /Hana Třísková.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Chapter 2 From Phonological Studies to Teaching Mandarin Tones: Some Perspectives on the Revision of the Tonal Inventory /Carlotta Sparvoli.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Chapter 3 The Comparison of Hungarian and Chinese Phonological Systems: A Pedagogical Perspective/Qiuyue Ye & Huba Bartos.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Chapter 4 Analysis of Chinese as Second Language Learners’ Interpretations of Noun-Noun Compounds/Shuyi Yang.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Chapter 5 Information Encoding, Chinese Word Order and CSLA: A Cognitive-Functional Account/Anna Morbiato.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Part II Explorations into Learners of Chinese.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Chapter 6 Learners’ and Teachers’ Beliefs about Learning Tones and Pinyin/Juan Yang & Jane Medwell.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Chapter 7 Toward a Corpus of Chinese Classroom Teacher Language/Xia Cui.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Chapter 8 Difficulties and Expectations of First Level Chinese Second Language Learners/Gloria Gabbianelli & Agnese Formica.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">- Chapter 9 Expressing Necessity in Chinese: A Pilot Study/Shuyi Eagle.- Index.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> *Springer offers softcover books for the low price of just $24.99. This service is available directly through your university library. To purchase your softcover edition, just click on the MyCopy link when
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Discounted prices are also available when a volume form the Educational Linguistics series is used as a textbook for a course. Contact your Springer representative for further details.
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