• ISBN13: 9781138946606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Foreign Languages
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2018
• Pages: 459
• Original Price: GBP 280.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 970 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Chinese and General

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is the first reference work of its kind.

The handbook contains twenty contributions from leading experts in the field of Chinese SLA, covering a wide range of topics such as social contexts, linguistic perspectives, skill learning, individual differences and learning settings and testing.

Each chapter covers historical perspectives, core issues and key findings, research approaches, pedagogical implications, future research direction and additional references.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is an essential reference for Chinese language teachers and researchers in Chinese applied linguistics and second language acquisition.

Chuanren Ke is Professor of Chinese and Second Language Acquisition and Director of both the SLA PhD program (FLARE) and the Confucius Institute at the University of Iowa.