The Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language: The Current Situation and Future Directions

Gong, Yang; Lai, Chun; Gao, Xuesong

doi:10.1007/s11516-020-0001-0

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“…The construction presents a range of difficulties and challenges for both L1 and L2 Chinese language learners in terms of its acquisition (e.g., Wen, 2012 ; Yi, 2014 ). For this reason, there is a pressing need for researchers to investigate Chinese language learners’ developmental patterns related to the acquisition of the ba construction ( Ma et al, 2017 ; Gong et al, 2018 , 2020a , b ).…”

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A Corpus-Based Study on the Pragmatic Use of the ba Construction in Early Childhood Mandarin Chinese

Tsung

Gong²

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This article reports on an inquiry that investigated the development of ba constructions in early childhood Mandarin. All cases of ba construction were extracted from the Early Childhood Mandarin Corpus collected from 168 preschoolers aged 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, and 5;6 (year; month; Li and Tse, 2011). Early Childhood Mandarin Corpus, University of Hong Kong. Data analysis indicated that: (1) Mandarin-speaking children produced a repertoire of 11 types of ba construction, and the children in the youngest age group (age 2;6) were able to produce six types of them; (2) children at 4 years old (age 4;6) experienced a critical developmental period of pragmatic use, and at 5 years old (age 5;6) they had attained cognitive and linguistic maturity in understanding the semantic and syntactic features of ba constructions; and (3) there was a significant age effect on the production of three types of ba construction, but no significant association between the children’s gender and their production of ba constructions. These findings offer fresh insights into understanding Chinese children’s innate capacity to understand the co-occurrence constraints concerning the syntactic, semantic and verb features inherent in ba construction, and their developmental ability to denote telic events by resorting to the appropriate ba sentence patterns.

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A Corpus-Based Study on the Pragmatic Use of the ba Construction in Early Childhood Mandarin Chinese

Tsung

Gong²

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Over the last two decades, Chinese has emerged as an increasingly important language taught and learnt as an additional language around the world [1][2][3]. By the end of 2018, more than 2.7 million people from 154 countries/regions were reportedly learning Chinese as an additional language (CAL) through various learning modes [4].…”

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Sustaining International Students’ Learning of Chinese in China: Shifting Motivations among New Zealand Students during Study Abroad

Gong

Hsiang

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This paper reports on an inquiry that examined groups of New Zealand students’ motivational shifts related to learning Chinese before and after relocation to China. In the inquiry, we encouraged 15 participants to write reflective journals and conducted two rounds of interviews before and after their study abroad trip to China. The analysis revealed that most participants had their motivation enhanced by the trip, and expected to sustain their heightened motivation for learning Chinese in the future. The findings suggest that the participants’ motivational shifts happened during their period of study abroad in China, and were prompted by their new pedagogical environment and individual learning experiences. In other words, the motivational enhancement emerged from ongoing interactions between the participants’ L2 self-concepts (e.g., ideal L2 selves) and learning and sociocultural contexts in China. These findings offer fresh insights into the dynamic nature of Chinese language learning motivation and the role of formal and informal settings in the participants’ learning of Chinese. They imply that educational stakeholders need to provide authentic communication opportunities and resources to enhance international students’ motivation for the sustainable learning of Chinese.

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“…Besides, student retention remains a challenge for online CFL education, which might be worse in an autonomous context. Scholars had noticed the seamless CFL learning supported by new online and mobile technologies (Gong, Lai, & Gao, 2020). It might be a way for international students to access effective integrated scaffolding in cultural learning, and to adapt to the new CFL learning context.…”

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Using Scaffolding Materials to Facilitate Autonomous Online Chinese as a Foreign Language Learning: A Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chen

2021

Sage Open

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This study explores international Chinese as a foreign language students’ use of embedded scaffolding materials to facilitate their learning in an autonomous online context during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 60 international students enrolled in a Chinese university participated in the study. Data were collected via participants’ reflective reports, online tutorials, and individual interviews. This study found that scaffolding materials could be a good facilitator to enhance international students’ autonomy regarding Chinese language skill learning online, which was not a linear process but a recursive changing one. In terms of cultural learning, scaffolding materials were less effective on promoting students’ online learning autonomy. Students preferred teachers’ assistance to their cultural element learning and problem-solving. These findings shed light on online Chinese education during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, when Learn From Home policy of Chinese universities will last for a long time. A longer process of investigation from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives for international students’ autonomous online language learning is recommended for future studies.

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The Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language: The Current Situation and Future Directions

Cited by 58 publications

References 30 publications

A Corpus-Based Study on the Pragmatic Use of the ba Construction in Early Childhood Mandarin Chinese

A Corpus-Based Study on the Pragmatic Use of the ba Construction in Early Childhood Mandarin Chinese

Sustaining International Students’ Learning of Chinese in China: Shifting Motivations among New Zealand Students during Study Abroad

Using Scaffolding Materials to Facilitate Autonomous Online Chinese as a Foreign Language Learning: A Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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