Manual for Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language
Routledge Chinese Language Pedagogy Series

Written in an extended dictionary format, the Manual for Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language aims to cover all key terms related to teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

Each section contains an introduction with language-specific information, and identifies students and teachers? common questions, including the capacity of Chinese as a morphologically unmarked language to indicate categories such as tense and mood. Many entries listed in this manual come with an explanation, a commentary, and rich examples.

The Manual for Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language appeals to both Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers and students, as well as being the ideal reference for researchers conducting comparative studies of the Chinese and English languages.

Introduction

Chapter 1拼音讲解 Pinyin

• 发音器官vocal organ, organ of articulation
• 声母initial, consonant
• 韵母 final, vowel, and semi-vowel
• 拼音规则Pinyin spelling rule
• 声调 tone
• 声调变化 tone change, tone sandhi
• 其他词汇 other useful vocabulary

Chapter 2 词汇讲解 Words

• 基础概念 basic concepts

• 词群 word group

• 词汇构成 word formation

• 礼貌用语 polite expressions

Chapter 3 语法讲解 Grammar

• 词性 parts of speech
• 实词 notional words

• 量词 measure words
• 名量词 noun measure words

• 动量词 action measure words

• 代词 pronouns
• 从文言文代词 pronoun from Classical Chinese

• 动词 verb
• 能愿动词 modal verb

• 虚词 function words

• 副词 adverbs

• 同动词 co-verbs

• 助词 particles

• 连词 conjunctions

• 句子成分分析 sentence parsing

• 补语 complement
• 结果补语 resultative complement

• 趋向补语 directional complement

• 可能补语 potential complement

• 词序 word order

• 疑问句 questions

• 特殊句子结构 special sentence structure

Chapter 4 汉字讲解 Characters

• 基本概念 basic concepts

• 基本笔画名称 basic strokes
• 基本笔顺 basic stroke order
• 基本部首名称 list of radicals
• 汉字结构 character configuration
• 汉字传统造字法 character etymology

• 汉字新造字法 creating new characters

• 汉字造字传说 legendary tales about the invention of characters

• 汉字演化史及书法 character development and calligraphy

• 汉字输入 typing in characters
• 汉字书写 the writing of characters
• 识字 character recognition
• 汉字学习策略 character learning strategy
• 标点符号 punctuation

Bo Hu is Instructor of Chinese at the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK.