Sun, Qi; Gahtan, Jamie

doi:10.1075/ijchl.00025.sun

Review published In: The Unit of Processing in Chinese
Edited by Tianlin Wang
[International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11:1] 2024
► pp. 130–142

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Nan Jiang (Ed.). Advances in Chinese as a second language: Acquisition and processing. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. ISBN 1-4438-5346-1

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Qi Sun | University at Albany

Jamie Gahtan | State University of New York

Published online: 17 June 2024

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.00025.sun

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Appendix. Chapter list of Jiang (2014)

Yang, B., & Wu, Q. (2014). Acquiring the Perfective Aspect Marker Le in Different Learning Contexts. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 10–32). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Wu, Y. (2014). The Effect of Metalinguistic Prompts on the Acquisition of Chinese wh-Questions. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 33–53). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Yao, Q. (2014). The Second-Language Acquisition of Aspect in Chinese bei-Constructions. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 54–76). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Gao, B. (2014). Comparison between Advanced-Level Chinese Heritage and Non-Heritage Learners’ Narrative Writing. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 77–102). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Luo, H. (2014). Anxiety in Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language and the Influence of Background Variables. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 103–120). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Yuan, F. (2014). Focused Dictogloss Peer Collaboration and Guided Reconstruction: A Case of Time Expressions in L2 Chinese. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 121–140). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Liu, H. (2014). The Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Bare Nouns by English Speakers. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 141–157). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Rohr, J. (2014). Training Naïve Learners to Identify Chinese Tone: An Inductive Approach. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 158–178). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Wang, M., Liu, Y., & Perfetti, C. A. (2014). The Roles of Character Properties in Early Learning to Read Chinese as a Second Language. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 179–209). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Huang, S. (2014). CFL Learners’ Strategies Used to Interpret New Compound Words in Sentence Reading. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 210–235). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Yang, S. (2014). The Effect of Semantic Relation and L2 Proficiency on Comprehension of Chinese Noun-Noun Compounds among CSL Learners. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 236–253). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Wang, Y., & Feng, L. (2014). Research on Acquisition Difficulty of Relative Clauses in Chinese as a Second Language. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 254–270). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Paul, J. Z. (2014). Expressing Caused Motion Events in L2 Chinese: The Case of Learning a Language That Is Typologically Similar to the Learners’ L1. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 271–298). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.