Details
“Series for Teaching ForeignersChinese Grammar” is the achievement of “Research and Development of Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as aForeign Language and Teaching Reference Grammar Series (Multi-volume)”,a major project of National Social Science Fund of China sponsored by ProfessorQi Huyang, and has been selected as the “2022 Founding Project of National PublicationFoundation”. As an important reference book for international Chinese language education,it aims to build and improve the “Grammar System of Chinese Teaching” forforeign students to meet the development needs of the new era. It mainly servesthe front-line Chinese teachers, researchers, graduate students andundergraduates majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. Thisseries consists of 39 volumes, including 4 outline series, 26 book series, 8summary series, and 1 collection of essays.
This book is a fascicule of the fourth edition in the series of 26 volumes, whichconsists of 69 questions, divided into “Ontological Study of Adjective Grammatical Functions”, “Bias Analysis of Adjective Grammatical Functions”, and“Instructional Design of Adjective Grammatical Functions”. The first partfocuses on the basic knowledge of adjectives in terms of basic concepts,subordinate classification, syntactic functions and semantic features. Thesecond part focuses on the bias of Chinese learners, which leads to the biasstudy of adjectives in the use of Chinese language. The third part focuses onthe practice of Chinese language teaching, designing teaching programs forChinese language teachers to teach adjective-related grammars from theperspective of teaching structure and teaching process.
About the Author
The editor-in-chief is Li Jinrong, who hasa Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University,and is also a professor and doctoral supervisor of International College ofChinese Studies. His research focuses on functional linguistics, Chinesegrammar and international Chinese language education. He has presided over 4national and provincial projects, published 5 books and textbooks, and morethan 50 papers in professional academic journals such as Studies of theChinese Language and Chinese Teaching in the World.
The author is Liu Zhenping, who has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguisticsfrom Beijing Language and Culture University, and is also a professor of theSchool of International Education, Nanning Normal University. His researchmainly focuses on Chinese grammar and international Chinese education. He haspublished more than 70 papers in Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies and other journals, 7 monographs in the Commercial Press and other publishers,and presided over more than 10 projects of the National Social Science Foundation.
Editorial Review
As one of the most important lexical categories inChinese, adjectives have long been the focus in Chinese linguistics and thediscipline of teaching Chinese as a second language. With the development ofrelated disciplines, researchers have made abundant research results on thebasis of borrowing and absorbing relevant theories from the West, and payingattention to combining the characteristics of Chinese language and Chineselanguage teaching. From a multidimensional research perspective, this bookcomprehensively and systematically combs through the research results relatedto Chinese adjectives, focuses on the needs of Chinese language teachingpractice, summarizes the research problems that are emphasized in the fields ofChinese language ontology, Chinese second language acquisition and Chinese secondlanguage teaching, and provides detailed and meticulous answers for front-lineChinese language teachers in response to these problems.
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.
