Details
Series for Teaching Foreigners Chinese Grammar is the achievement of “Researchand Development of Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language andTeaching Reference Grammar Series (Multi-volume)”, a major project ofNational Social Science Fund of China sponsored by Professor Qi Huyang, whichhas been 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 the series of 26 volumes.
Discourseis one of the important contents of teaching Chinese as a foreign language,which involves various aspects and has always been a difficult point inteaching. From the perspective of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, thisbook discusses main contents related to the cohesion and coherence ofdiscourse, including their relationship, structure and cohesion, referentialand cohesion, cohesive words and cohesion, and the teaching of cohesion andcoherence. Mainly starting from specific language forms and common problems insecond language acquisition, this book examines the main ways to realizecohesion and to choose corresponding language forms to achieve cohesion indifferent types of discourse.
About the Author
Hu Jianfeng has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics ofShanghai Normal University and is an associate professor at the InternationalCollege of Chinese Studies, Shanghai Normal University. His research focuses on text linguistics andpragmatics. Pro. Hu has published more than 30 papers in professional journalssuch as Chinese Teaching in the World, Language Teaching and LinguisticStudies and Linguistic Sciences, presided over a number of nationaland provincial social science projects, and published two monographs.
Editorial Review
1. Language teaching involves not onlygrammar and vocabulary, but also pragmatics and discourse. Focusing on thelatter two prominent aspects in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, this bookdeserves to be a new reference material for discourse teaching and research.
2. This book focuses on the analysis ofdiscourse bias in interlanguage corpora, which is of practical value toteaching.
3.This book systematically investigates the specific factors affecting discoursecohesion and coherence, and compares the influence of some cohesion modes onthe discourse connectives, which is of reference significance for discourseteaching and research.
Suggestion
This book can be used as a reference material for teachers to prepare and teach in discourse lesson.
