Despite the growth of research in learning and teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
(CFL), no scoping review of research published in international, anglophone journals has …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

Synthesizing the theory behind and methodology for conducting judgment tests, Using
Judgments in Second Language Acquisition Research aims to clarify the issues surrounding …

The orthographic and morphological system of Mandarin Chinese requires more time and
developmental stages for learners to acquire. This source of difficulty might present unique …

This special issue assembles empirical work on second language teaching and learning
from a generative linguistic perspective. The focus is on properties that constitute grammar …

A comprehensive introduction to how people learn second languages (L2s), this textbook
approaches the topic through five problems the L2 learner has to solve:'breaking into'the L2; …

Two recent books (Jiang, 2014, Advances in Chinese as a second language; Wang, 2013,
Grammatical development of Chinese among non-native speakers) provide new resources …

This article reports on a study investigating the second language (L2) acquisition of the
plural and human features in Mandarin Chinese by adult Korean speakers. Both plural and …

Adopting a decompositional approach to items in the lexicon, this article reports on an
empirical study investigating Chinese speakers' second language (L2) acquisition of English …

The Chinese 是shì… 的de cleft construction is notoriously difficult for Chinese as a
Foreign/Second Language (CFL/CSL) learners to acquire due to its syntactic properties and …