Developing Writing Competence in L2 Chinese Classrooms: Research and Application

✍ Scribed by Li Yang (editor); Laura Valentín-Rivera (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 188
• Series: Second Language Acquisition; 161
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume focuses on writing Chinese as a second language (L2). It provides readers with cutting-edge empirical research and insightful teaching methods and strategies for effectively developing L2 writing competence in L2 Chinese classroom contexts.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Contextualizing the Importance of Writing: A Call for Action in L2 Chinese Classrooms
1 Writing Processes and Products of Chinese as Heritage and Foreign Language Learners
2 Collaborative Writing in a Tertiary Chinese as a Foreign Language Classroom: Processes and Products
3 Learners’ Writing Strategies in L2 Chinese: A Cross-Sectional Study
4 Investigating Nominal Structures in L2 Chinese Writing: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective
5 Exploring L2 Chinese Learners’ Connective Usage in Writing: An Error Analysis Approach
6 Facebook as a Mediator for L2 Chinese Writing: Practices and Perceptions
7 The Efficacy of Teachers’ Written Corrective Feedback in the L2 Chinese Classroom: Learner Perceptions and Preferences
8 L2 Writing under Pandemic Conditions: How Do Chinese and Spanish Instructors Adapt?
Concluding Remarks
Index