Description

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A rapidly growing group of Chinese language students are known as advanced beginners or heritage students - those who were raised in the United States in Chinese-speaking homes and can speak the language but cannot read or write it. Liu and Wang's primer is addressed to meet the needs of this rapidly expanding population of Chinese language students. around readings on Chinese history, culture, geography, literature, folktales and mythology, customs and cuisine. The focus is not on sentence grammar but rather on reading strategies and the teaching of discourse grammar, a new, more authentic approach to the study of languages.

About the Author

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Duanduan Li is a lecturer of Chinese, and currently director of the Chinese Language Program at Columbia University.Irene Liu was director of the Chinese Language Program at Columbia University. Lening Liu is a senior lecturer of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.Hailong Wang is a lecturer of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.Zhirong Wang is a lecturer of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.Yanping Xie, a speech and language pathologist, was a lecturer of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.