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The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language book cover

1st Edition

The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language

Edited By Siu-lun Lee Copyright 2023
258 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language brings together contributions on such issues as Cantonese textbooks, linguistic description, literacy and tone acquisition, supplemented by case studies from the Netherlands and Japan. The learning and teaching of Cantonese as a second language is a subject of considerable interest in the international academic community, and the... Read more

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1 Introduction: The learning and teaching of Cantonese as a second language

SIU-LUN LEE

PART I

Linguistic perspective on the learning of Cantonese

2 The Cantonese mixed script

ROBERT S. BAUER

3 Written Cantonese and Cantonese textbooks in mainland China

DON SNOW

4 How not to acquire tone: Cross-linguistic influence in prosody

STEPHEN MATTHEWS

5 Teaching literacy skills to Cantonese learners

SIU-LUN LEE

PART II

Case studies from the Netherlands and Japan

6 Cantonese heritage language teaching in the Netherlands: Towards an inclusive classroom

AHOLI SO

7 The learning of Cantonese as a foreign language at Japanese universities

MAKI IIDA

PART III

Current trends in Cantonese language education

8 Curriculum design and Cantonese teaching at a Hong Kong university

KEITH TONG and MARTHA LAM

9 Teaching Cantonese tones to international university students in Hong Kong

CHUN WAH YUEN and ANNA S. C. CHEUNG

10 A corpus-based approach to learning and teaching Cantonese

ANDY C. CHIN

11 Textbook Cantonese romanization systems

SHIN KATAOKA

12 Learning, teaching and performing Cantonese on the Internet

SIU-LUN LEE

Index

Biography

Siu-lun Lee is Senior Lecturer in the Yale-China Chinese Language Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has over 25 years of experience teaching Cantonese at the tertiary level. His research interests include applied linguistics, Cantonese studies, Chinese linguistics, sociolinguistics, language teaching pedagogy and second language learning. He is the author of the book series Modern Cantonese published by Routledge.

"This edited book offers an important contribution to this subject. The book contributes to the field of language teaching, particularly to teaching Cantonese as a second language. This book will appeal to many language teachers, particularly to teachers of Cantonese as a second language. This book also attracts strong interest from scholars working in the field of Chinese linguistics, Cantonese studies, and sociolinguistics."

Ng Hok Chung, Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University

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