Istvan Kecskes is a Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, Albany. He is the president of the CASLAR Association and editor in chief of the CASLAR journal. Some of his books like Explorations in Chinese as a Second Language (Springer 2017) and Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language (Routledge 2017) contributed significantly to research in Chinese as a Second Language.Hang Zhang is Associate Professor of Chinese Language & Linguistics at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. She has published monographs, journal articles and book chapters on second language phonology and Chinese pedagogy, including Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones: Beyond First Language Transfer (Brill, 2018).

• PrologueAknowledgementList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1 A Corpus-Based Study on Web-Based Chinese Lettered WordsJing Wu2 Identifying Polysyllabic Legal Terms in Audio-Visual MaterialsShaoming Wang, Shan Wang and Runzhe Zhan3 The Recognition of Situation-Bound Utterances: Testing Receptive Pragmatic Knowledge in Chinese as a Foreign LanguageSergio Conti4 Exploring the Pragmalinguistic Knowledge of the 是 shì … 的 de Cleft Construction in L1 Italian Learners’ L2 Chinese: Triangulation of Corpus and Experimental DataAlessia Iurato5 Spatial Anchoring and Narrative Structure in L2 ChineseArnaud Arslangul6 L2 Learner’s Usage of Null Subject in Three Types of Chinese Complex SentencesLan Zhang7 Using Differentiated Instruction to Teach the “被 Bei” Structure in a Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) ClassFan Yang8 Using Machine Translation to Enhance the Learning of Chinese Resultative Complement Constructions in the CFL Classroom: An Exploration of Pre-editing and Post-editing Strategies for Accurate TranslationXuan Yang and Caitríona Osborne9 Pronunciation—a Neglected Topic in Textbooks of Standard Chinese?Hana Třísková10 Exploring Oral Proficiency Profiles of Advanced L2 Chinese Speakers: a Mixed-Methods StudyYu Wu11 Teaching Real-World Listening: Chinese Second/Foreign Language Teachers’ Perspectives and PracticesLu Han, Xiang Li, Elvis Wagner12 A Mandarin Placement Test with Formative Orientation and the Deployment of its First VersionPing-Hsueh Chen, Rui Yan, Yuhe Tang and Mariarosaria GianninotoIndex