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 ChineseSLA, 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 forChinese language teachers and researchers in Chinese applied linguistics and second languageacquisition.

Chuanren Ke is Professor of Chinese and Second Language Acquisition and Director of boththe SLA PhD Program (FLARE) and the Confucius Institute at the University of Iowa.

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Edited by Chuanren Ke

First published 2018
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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 languageStudy and teachingForeign
speakers. | Second language acquisitionResearch.
Classification: LCC PL1065 .R68 2018 | DDC 495.180071dc23
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
by Keystroke, Neville Lodge, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton

Chuanren Ke

PART I
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of second language Chinese

Ping Li and Jing Yang

Ning Yu and Ben Pin-Yun Wang

Jie Zhang and Hongyin Tao

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Xinjia Peng

Patricia A. Duff and Liam Doherty

PART II
L2 Chinese skills development

Tianlu Zhang and Chuanren Ke

Helen H. Shen

Yuan Lu and Chuanren Ke

Hang Zhang

Jianling Liao

Li Yang

Wei Cai

PART III
Sociocontextual factors and individual differences in L2 Chinese development

Celeste Kinginger, Qian Wu, and Sheng-Hsun Lee

Duanduan Li and Patricia A. Duff

Agnes Weiyun He

Xiaohong Wen

Han Luo

PART IV
Classroom instruction and technology

Hong Gang Jin

Fangyuan Yuan

Jun Da and Yanqun Zheng

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.