Manual for Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language

The aim of Manual for Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language is to cover all key aspects of teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language. 

The book is divided into four main areas: 
- Pinyin
- Words
- Grammar
- Characters

Each of these areas provides an analysis of the terms related to it, i.e., in the pinyin part, tones and phonetics are being revised; in the part about words, the building of words and formal expressions is explained, in the grammar section, typical aspects of Chinese syntax such as co-verbs and complements are being dealt with, and in the part on characters, you will find notions to understand and study Chinese characters such as spelling, etymology etc.   

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.

Book contents:

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