Acquisition of Chinese relative clauses at the initial stage

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors to the volume vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1: Research base for practice
6. Developing Chinese oral skills – A research base for practice 9
7. Asymmetrical style of communication in Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction: Pedagogical implications for TCSOL professionals 33
8. Learning tones cooperatively in the CSL classroom: A proposal 65
9. Chapter 2: Integrating culture and language
10. Integrating culture and language in the CFL classroom: A view from the bottom up 81
11. Analysis of pragmatic functions of Chinese cultural markers 115
12. Gestures as tone markers in multilingual communication 143
13. The collaborative construction of cultural knowledge in a Chinese movie class 169
14. Chapter 3: Acquisition of language structures
15. The acquisition of Chinese modal auxiliary Neng Verb Group (NVG): A case study of an English L2 learner of Chinese 187
16. Acquisition of Chinese relative clauses at the initial stage 215
17. Conceptual similarities in languages – Evidence from English be going to and its Chinese counterparts 235
18. SLA of Mandarin nominal syntax: Emergence order in the early stages 257
19. Index 281