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Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
Vol. 16, 26 October 2023
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The Features of ABAC Construction and Its Application in Chinese Second Language Teaching
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Abstract
This study aims to provide guidance on how to help students master ABAC construction better, in terms of syntactic features, semantic features, as well as pedagogical methods. Based on the literature review, we analyzed the internal structure of ABAC construction. We selected 38 examples of ABAC construction applicable to teaching Chinese as a second language combined with the textbook “Chinese Roadmap” used in junior high school classes in Hong Kong. These sentences were analyzed both syntactically and semantically to identify the commonalities of the ABAC construction’s syntactic and semantic features, and investigated the patterns to obtain a systematic understanding of its characteristics. By integrating the characteristics of ABAC construction, we proposed teaching suggestions for teaching Chinese as a second language, including syntactic features, semantic rules, and teaching methods, hoping to deepen the learners’ systematic comprehension of ABAC construction and to provide a valuable reference for teaching Chinese construction as a second language.
Keywords
constructive grammar, Chinese ABAC construction, teaching Chinese as a second language, syntactic features, semantic rules
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Data Availability
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-057-8
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-058-5
- Published Date
- 26 October 2023
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7048
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7056
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7048/16/20231109
- Copyright
- 26 October 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited