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“Series forTeaching Foreigners Chinese Grammar” is the achievement of “Researchand Development of Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Languageand Teaching Reference Grammar Series (Multi-volume)”, a major project ofNational Social Science Fund of China sponsored by Professor Qi Huyang, which hasbeen selected as the “2022 Founding Project of National Publication Foundation”.As an important reference book for international Chinese language education, itaims to build and improve the “Grammar System of Chinese Teaching” for foreignstudents to meet the development needs of the new era. It mainly serves thefirst-line Chinese teachers, researchers, graduate students and undergraduatesmajoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. This seriesconsists of 39 volumes, including 4 outline series, 26 book series, 8 summaryseries, and 1 collection of essays.

This book is a fascicule of the third edition in theseries of 26 volumes.

The Auxiliary Word “Le” highlights the closerelationship between “le” at the endof the Chinese word and “le” at theend of the sentence, regarding the two as the distribution of the sameindividual marked in different positions. This book collects and sorts out alarge number of problems related to “le”in second language teaching, and classifies them into five parts including “natureand function”, “connections and distinctions”, “combination and co-occurrence”,“errors and causes” and “teaching and practice”, and gives relevant analysesand explanations. The questions in each part are arranged progressively inorder to help Chinese teachers or learners learning Chinese as a secondlanguage at different stages. The integration of these problems is a systematicand comprehensive review of the function, usage and teaching of the Chinesecharacter “le”.

About the Author
Shao Hongliang has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics of Shanghai NormalUniversity and is a PhD supervisor at the School of Chinese Studies andExchange, Shanghai International Studies University. His research focuses onmodern Chinese grammar and teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages. Dr. Shao has published morethan 50 papers in professional journals such as Chinese Language, Chinese Teaching in the World and LanguageTeaching and Linguistic Studies. At the same time, his monograph, On theRedundancy of Chinese Syntactic-Semantic Markers, has won the “8th Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Universities” (YouthAchievement Award) of the Ministry of Education.

Editorial Review
Presently, almost all teaching materials have arranged the teachingof “le” in the primary stage, andillustrated its functions and usage with examples, and teachers also payparticular attention to the teaching of “le”in the teaching process, but the error frequency of using “le” still remains very high, no matter in learners’ oral expressionor written composition. Moreover, the wrong use of “le” does not only appear in the primary stage, but also popular inthe intermediate and advanced stages.

This book has a very clear perspective on how to deal with specific problems. It proceedsfrom the perspectives of “nature and function”, “connections and distinctions”,“combination and co-occurrence”, “errors and causes”, and “teaching andpractice” based on the principle of simplicity, which helps to simplify complexproblems with strong operability.

Suggestion
It is recommended for front-line teachers of languageeducation, language teaching researchers, and postgraduate students majoring ininternational Chinese language education and other language education.