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Chapter 13. Specialised corpora for Chinese language education in Singapore

  • Hock Huan Goh , Jinzhan Lin and Chunsheng Zhao
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Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse
This chapter is in the book Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse

Abstract

Corpus linguistics is crucial to language education, but many corpora do not pay enough attention to curriculum and pedagogical needs. To address this issue and in view of Singapore’s unique language environment, the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language built two specialised corpora for Chinese language education in Singapore, which comprise a Written Corpus and a Spoken Corpus. The Written Corpus provides information on Chinese characters, vocabulary words and sentence structures used in written materials daily; while the Spoken Corpus provides guidelines for attainable spoken proficiency of primary school students at different academic levels. With these corpora, curriculum developers can design syllabi with greater precision on the language content and address the learning gap for Chinese language proficiency. As for teachers, an online resource platform developed based on the Written Corpus provides them with authentic materials and practical applications (such as the text grading module) as reliable tools and resources for lesson preparation and learning assessment.

Abstract

Corpus linguistics is crucial to language education, but many corpora do not pay enough attention to curriculum and pedagogical needs. To address this issue and in view of Singapore’s unique language environment, the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language built two specialised corpora for Chinese language education in Singapore, which comprise a Written Corpus and a Spoken Corpus. The Written Corpus provides information on Chinese characters, vocabulary words and sentence structures used in written materials daily; while the Spoken Corpus provides guidelines for attainable spoken proficiency of primary school students at different academic levels. With these corpora, curriculum developers can design syllabi with greater precision on the language content and address the learning gap for Chinese language proficiency. As for teachers, an online resource platform developed based on the Written Corpus provides them with authentic materials and practical applications (such as the text grading module) as reliable tools and resources for lesson preparation and learning assessment.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Chapter 1. Chinese discourse from diverse perspectives 1
  5. Chapter 2. New words in contemporary Chinese language use 5
  6. Chapter 3. Usage based language change and exemplar representations in Beijing Mandarin Chinese 27
  7. Chapter 4. Contextual variations of internal and external modifications in Chinese requests 57
  8. Chapter 5. Some interactional functions of Yinwei -clauses in Mandarin Chinese conversation 81
  9. Chapter 6. Preliminaries to delicate matters 105
  10. Chapter 7. Chinese near-synonyms jian (建), zao (造), gai (蓋) ‘to build’ revisited 137
  11. Chapter 8. Constraints on the collocational behaviors of Chinese near-synonyms 155
  12. Chapter 9. Genericity and sentences with an AP state complement in Mandarin Chinese 177
  13. Chapter 10. Kinship metaphors in the Chinese construction A shi B zhi fu/mu 199
  14. Chapter 11. The classification of Chinese time expressions from Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspectives 221
  15. Chapter 12. Being a Kam in China 245
  16. Chapter 13. Specialised corpora for Chinese language education in Singapore 265
  17. Index 297
https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.10.13goh

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Chapter 1. Chinese discourse from diverse perspectives 1
  5. Chapter 2. New words in contemporary Chinese language use 5
  6. Chapter 3. Usage based language change and exemplar representations in Beijing Mandarin Chinese 27
  7. Chapter 4. Contextual variations of internal and external modifications in Chinese requests 57
  8. Chapter 5. Some interactional functions of Yinwei -clauses in Mandarin Chinese conversation 81
  9. Chapter 6. Preliminaries to delicate matters 105
  10. Chapter 7. Chinese near-synonyms jian (建), zao (造), gai (蓋) ‘to build’ revisited 137
  11. Chapter 8. Constraints on the collocational behaviors of Chinese near-synonyms 155
  12. Chapter 9. Genericity and sentences with an AP state complement in Mandarin Chinese 177
  13. Chapter 10. Kinship metaphors in the Chinese construction A shi B zhi fu/mu 199
  14. Chapter 11. The classification of Chinese time expressions from Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspectives 221
  15. Chapter 12. Being a Kam in China 245
  16. Chapter 13. Specialised corpora for Chinese language education in Singapore 265
  17. Index 297
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