Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education: Theoretical and Practical Issues

This is an edited text for learning and teaching Mandarin Chinese in higher education, written by leading professionals and academics based on their research on benchmarks, assessment, learning strategies, L2 acquisition in Chinese and teaching methodologies.

Those studies are drawn from established theories in applied linguistics and their development. The aim of the volume is to establish studies on teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL) as part of the mainstream of applied linguistics, and to fill a gap between the fast-growing professional practice and the provision of academic resource books for professionals, academics and students on postgraduate courses in TCFL.