Comprehensive Exploration of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: Proceedings of the Academic Symposium on Research in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages

Author: Zhao Jinming, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2007-04-30
Features: The "Academic Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language" was held in Beijing on November 20-21, 2004. This conference was organized by the Center for Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages at Beijing Language and Culture University, a key research base in humanities and social sciences under the Ministry of Education. It was the center's third domestic academic conference on teaching Chinese as a second language, following the "International Academic Symposium on Chinese Learning and Cognition" held in October 2001 and the "International Academic Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching 2002" held in July 2002. The conference received 54 papers. Due to space limitations, this anthology includes only 28 papers. Some papers that were accepted but had already been published earlier had to be omitted. These papers are roughly divided into four groups:
1. Macro-level discussions on teaching Chinese as a second language, with four papers by Cui Xiliang, Zhao Jinming, Lu Jianming, and Hu Mingyang addressing issues in basic research, applied research, and discipline development;
2. research oriented toward teaching Chinese as a second language, with ten papers by Chen Changlai and others focusing on grammatical issues, and four papers discussing phonetics, vocabulary, and Chinese characters;
3. Theoretical research on teaching Chinese as a second language, including five papers by Li Fangjie and others on textbook compilation, task-based teaching methods, and the Chinese Language Proficiency Test (HSK);
4. Research on second language acquisition of Chinese, with five papers by Wang Jianqin and others covering Chinese character acquisition and learning strategies.
This anthology is titled "Comprehensive Exploration of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language," which serves as a summary of the conference's themes. It also follows the naming convention of the "Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages Research Series" and reflects our new aspirations for research in teaching Chinese as a second language. This anthology is the third volume in the "Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages Research Series" at Beijing Language and Culture University, edited by the editorial office of World Chinese Teaching. We extend our gratitude to Commercial Press for their strong support in the publication of this book.