The Instruction and Acquisition of the BA Construction by Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language

Hongying Xu

doi:10.5771/9781793641427

Summary

The Instruction and Acquisition of the BA Construction by Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language tackles the linguistically unique and notoriously difficult BA construction in Chinese, covering its linguistic properties and acquisition by learners of Chinese as a foreign language, alongside teaching recommendations. Adopting the Interface Hypothesis and the Processing Instruction approach, Hongying Xu argues that not all linguistic properties of the BA construction are equally difficult to acquire and that properties that call for knowledge from interfaces—including semantics, pragmatics, and syntax—are more difficult to master than those that involve pure syntactic knowledge. Xu argues that instructors should provide manipulated input to help learners notice and process these properties before they are required to produce any grammatical and appropriate sentences using the ba construction.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4141-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4142-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 214
Product type: Book Titles

1. 1. Tables No access
  2. Figures No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. Increased Student Population in the Past Decades No access
  2. Challenges in Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language No access
  3. Research in Acquisition of L2 Chinese No access
2. Scope of This Book No access
3. The BA Construction No access
4. Acquisition of the BA Construction No access
5. Instruction of the BA Construction No access
1. Chapter Introduction No access
2. The Development of the BA Construction in Chinese: A Brief Introduction No access
3. Syntactic Properties of the BA Construction No access
4. 1. The Disposal Account No access
  2. The Causative Account No access
  3. The Complex Verb Constraint No access
5. 1. Discourse Properties of the BA Construction as a Whole No access
  2. Discourse and Pragmatic Properties of the Elements in the BA Construction No access
6. 1. Construction Grammar No access
  2. Analyzing the BA Construction Using the Construction Grammar Framework No access
7. 1. Corpus-Based Studies on the Types of BA Sentences No access
  2. Subtypes of the BA Construction Listed in National Guidelines No access
8. Chapter Summary No access
9. Notes No access
1. Chapter Introduction No access
2. 1. The Acquisition Order of Different Types of BA Sentences No access
  2. Error Patterns in BA Sentences Among Learners of Chinese No access
  3. The Acquisition of the Syntactic Properties of the BA Construction No access
  4. The Acquisition of the Semantic Properties of the BA Construction No access
  5. The Acquisition of the Pragmatic Properties of the BA Construction No access
  6. Factors That Affect the Acquisition of the BA Construction No access
3. Chapter Summary No access
1. Chapter Introduction No access
2. Input and Practice from Textbooks No access
3. 1. Stages in the Teaching of the BA Construction and Their Optimal Teaching Order No access
  2. Aspects to Highlight When Teaching the BA Construction No access
4. 1. Introducing and Practicing BA in Contexts No access
  2. Using the Focus-on-Form Approach to Teach the BA Construction No access
5. Empirical Studies on BA Instruction No access
6. Chapter Summary No access
1. Chapter Introduction No access
2. 1. The Interface Hypothesis No access
  2. 1. Studies on the Properties of the Syntax-Semantics Interface No access
    2. Studies on the Properties of the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface No access
3. 1. Research Questions No access
  2. Target Properties of the BA Construction No access
  3. Hypotheses No access
4. 1. Participants No access
  2. Tasks No access
  3. Procedure No access
  4. Scoring Procedure No access
  5. Data Analysis Procedures No access
5. 1. Core Syntax Property Versus Syntax-Semantics Interface Properties No access
  2. Item Analyses No access
  3. Core Syntax Property Versus Syntax-Discourse Interface Properties No access
  4. Item Analyses No access
  5. Syntax-Semantics Interface Properties Versus Syntax-Discourse Interface Properties No access
  6. Properties Within the Syntax-Semantics Interface No access
  7. Summary of Results No access
6. 1. Research Question 1a: L2 Chinese Learners’ Acquisition of BA Properties Involving the Core Syntax Versus Syntax-Semantics Interface No access
  2. Research Question 1b: L2 Chinese Learners’ Acquisition of BA Properties Involving Core Syntax Versus Syntax-Discourse Interface No access
  3. Research Question 2: L2 Learners’ Acquisition of Properties Involving Different Interface Domains: Syntax-Semantics Versus Syntax-Discourse No access
  4. Research Question 3: L2 Learners’ Acquisition of Syntax-Semantics Properties No access
7. Conclusion and Implications No access
1. Chapter Introduction No access
2. 1. Obligatory BA Sentences No access
  2. Optional BA Sentences No access
3. Learners’ Awareness of Obligatory Versus Optional BA Sentences No access
4. 1. Participants No access
  2. Task No access
  3. Procedure No access
  4. Scoring No access
5. 1. 1. Acceptance Rates on Obligatory and Optional BA Sentences: NS Group No access
    2. Acceptance Rates on Obligatory and Optional BA Sentences: L2 High Group No access
    3. Acceptance Rates on Obligatory and Optional BA Sentences: L2 Low Group No access
    4. Pattern Similarity Among the Groups No access
  2. 1. Awareness of Obligatory BA Sentences No access
    2. Awareness of Optional BA Sentences No access
    3. Item Analysis Within Each Subset: Obligatory BA Versus Optional BA No access
6. 1. L2 Chinese Learners’ Awareness of Obligatory Versus Optional BA Sentences No access
7. Chapter Summary No access
1. Chapter Introduction No access
2. 1. Grammar Instruction in Foreign Language Classrooms No access
  2. Processing Instruction: Principles and Procedures No access
  3. Previous Research on the Processing Instruction Approach No access
3. 1. Gaps Identified in Previous Research on PI No access
  2. Findings from the Present Study on the Acquisition of the BA Construction and Proposals on Teaching It No access
  3. Research Questions No access
  4. 1. Participants No access
    2. Training Materials No access
    3. Measurement No access
    4. Procedure No access
    5. Scoring and Analysis No access
  5. 1. Comprehension of the BA Sentences No access
    2. Production of BA Sentences No access
    3. Explicit Information Versus Implicit Corrective Feedback in the PI Training No access
  6. 1. PI and Comprehension of the BA Construction No access
    2. PI and Production of the BA Construction No access
    3. Explicit Information and Implicit Corrective Feedback in the PI Approach No access
  7. Future Directions No access
4. Chapter Summary No access
1. Chapter Introduction No access
2. Acquisition of the BA Construction No access
3. Effectiveness of Processing Instruction in Teaching the BA Construction No access
4. 1. Implications No access
  2. Guidelines No access
  3. Implications from the Usage-Based Construction Approach No access
  4. Future Directions for Research on BA Construction Acquisition and Instruction No access
1. Survey for English-Speaking Learners of Chinese No access
1. 1. Word Order Constraint No access
  2. Complex Verb Constraint No access
  3. Affectedness on the BA NP Constraint No access
1. 1. Ba-Preferred Contexts No access
  2. SVO-Preferred Contexts No access
1. 1. Obligatory BA Subset No access
  2. Optional BA Subset No access
1. Sentences Used in the Study of Chapter 6: The Comprehension Task No access
References No access Pages 189 - 204
Index No access Pages 205 - 212
About the Author No access Pages 213 - 214