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. The 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 Pinyin
vocal organ, organ of articulation
initial, consonant
final, vowel, and semi-vowel
Pinyin spelling rule
tone
tone change, tone sandhi
other useful vocabulary
Chapter 2 Words
basic concepts
word group
word formation
polite expressions
Chapter 3 Grammar
parts of speech
notional words
measure words
noun measure words
action measure words
pronouns
pronoun from Classical Chinese
verb
modal verb
function words
adverbs
co-verbs
particles
conjunctions
sentence parsing
complement
resultative complement
directional complement
potential complement
word order
questions
special sentence structure
Chapter 4 Characters
basic concepts
basic strokes
basic stroke order
list of radicals
character configuration
character etymology
creating new characters
legendary tales about the invention of characters
character development and calligraphy
typing in characters
the writing of characters
character recognition
character learning strategy
punctuation
Bo Hu is Instructor of Chinese at the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
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