This textbook is designed for students of Chinese as a second/foreign language who have had three years of study at college. Focusing on topics of international business and foreign trade, the book offers advanced training in vocabulary, grammar, and rhetoric. With an emphasis on communication and practicality, the textbook contains detailed explanations for word usages and sentence structures, and ample exercises of different kinds, each targeting at a specific skill area. It also includes various authentic materials, including documents, forms, and letters, etc. In addition, it provides some useful cultural information and business background knowledge in each lesson. Songren Cui obtained his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1992. His research interests include language proficiency and testing, teaching methodology and learning strategies, pedagogical grammar and discourse grammar. He has been an assistant professor of the Asian Studies Program of Bowdoin College since 1999.

A Reference Grammar for Teaching Chinese – Syntax and Discourse presents a comprehensive guide on the major issues in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Through this reference work readers will learn all basic structures of the language, focusing on the interactions of syntactic properties, semantic nuances, and discourse contexts. The work contains ample examples and jargon-free explanations to account for some of the most nagging problems in teaching Chinese. At the heart of this reference resource are the concrete and efficient ways to help  researchers in both fields of language pedagogy and Chinese linguistics as well as learners of the language.

A Reference Grammar for Teaching Chinese – Syntax and Discourse presents a comprehensive guide on the major issues in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Through this reference work readers will learn all basic structures of the language, focusing on the interactions of syntactic properties, semantic nuances, and discourse contexts. The work contains ample examples and jargon-free explanations to account for some of the most nagging problems in teaching Chinese. At the heart of this reference resource are the concrete and efficient ways to help  researchers in both fields of language pedagogy and Chinese linguistics as well as learners of the language.

This textbook is designed for students of Chinese as a second/foreign language who have had three years of study at college. Focusing on topics of international business and foreign trade, the book offers advanced training in vocabulary, grammar, and rhetoric. With an emphasis on communication and practicality, the textbook contains detailed explanations for word usages and sentence structures, and ample exercises of different kinds, each targeting at a specific skill area. It also includes various authentic materials, including documents, forms, and letters, etc. In addition, it provides some useful cultural information and business background knowledge in each lesson. Songren Cui obtained his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1992. His research interests include language proficiency and testing, teaching methodology and learning strategies, pedagogical grammar and discourse grammar. He has been an assistant professor of the Asian Studies Program of Bowdoin College since 1999.

A Reference Grammar for Teaching Chinese – Syntax and Discourse presents a comprehensive guide on the major issues in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Through this reference work readers will learn all basic structures of the language, focusing on the interactions of syntactic properties, semantic nuances, and discourse contexts. The work contains ample examples and jargon-free explanations to account for some of the most nagging problems in teaching Chinese. At the heart of this reference resource are the concrete and efficient ways to help  researchers in both fields of language pedagogy and Chinese linguistics as well as learners of the language.

A Reference Grammar for Teaching Chinese – Syntax and Discourse presents a comprehensive guide on the major issues in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Through this reference work readers will learn all basic structures of the language, focusing on the interactions of syntactic properties, semantic nuances, and discourse contexts. The work contains ample examples and jargon-free explanations to account for some of the most nagging problems in teaching Chinese. At the heart of this reference resource are the concrete and efficient ways to help  researchers in both fields of language pedagogy and Chinese linguistics as well as learners of the language.