Research Among Learners of Chinese As a Foreign Language

Brief Description: The acquisition of the ba construction by Adult English speakers / Hang Du -- Language attrition in grammar and receptive skills in Mandarin Chinese / Miao-fen Tseng -- Analysis of radical knowledge development among beginning CFL learners / Helen H. Shen -- The effects of word-knowledge, depth, parts of speech, and profiency level on word association among learners of Chinese as a second language / Chan Lu -- See how they read / Cecilia Chang -- Free recall from Japanese learners of Chinese L2 Writing / Yun Xiao -- Intermediate distance learners of Chinese look back / Isabel Tasker. Publisher Marketing: Cutting-edge in its approach and international in its authorship, this fourth monograph in a series sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers Association features eight research studies that explore a variety of themes, topics, and perspectives important to a variety of stakeholders in the Chinese language learning community. Employing a wide range of research methodologies, the volume provides data from actual Chinese language learners and will be of value to both theoreticians and practitioners alike. [in English & Chinese]