Overview
- First major English-language book on Chinese for Specific/Professional Purposes
- Covers both theoretical and practical issues such as language teaching
- Addresses a diverse range of topics, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives on Chinese for Specific/Professional Purposes
Part of the book series: Chinese Language Learning Sciences (CLLS)
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Seventeen papers are included, and address four broad thematic categories: (1) academic Chinese, (2) business Chinese, (3) Chinese for medicine and health care, and (4) Chinese for other broadly defined services and industries (diplomacy, tourism, wine-tasting, etc.). Representing the state of the art in CSP research, the book offers an indispensable guide for anyone interested in theoretical and practical issues in this area of applied Chinese language studies.
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Keywords
- Chinese for Specific and Professional Purposes
- Academic Chinese
- Business Chinese
- Chinese language for diplomats
- Chinese language education
- Chinese language and law
- Medical Chinese
- Chinese language and media
- Chinese language and tourism
- Chinese language and the wine industry
- Chinese language in science and engineering
- chinese
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Academic Chinese
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Chinese for Medicine and Heath Care
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Chinese for Other Services and Industries
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hao-Jan HowardChen is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Chair of the English Department at National Taiwan Normal University. His areas of expertise include computer-assisted language learning, corpus linguistics and applied linguistics. He has also served as Director of National Taiwan Normal University’s Mandarin Training Center for four years. He has published extensively on computer-assisted language learning and corpus linguistics. He also serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Computer Assisted Language Learning, English Teaching and Learning, and the International Journal of Digital Learning Technology. Lastly, he manages the Cool English website, a website for English learning supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, which currently has more than 85,000 registered users.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinese for Specific and Professional Purposes
Book Subtitle: Theory, Pedagogical Applications, and Practices
Editors: Hongyin Tao, Howard Hao-Jan Chen
Series Title: Chinese Language Learning Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9505-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9504-8Published: 02 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9507-9Published: 02 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9505-5Published: 20 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2520-1719
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1727
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 409
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Language Teaching, Chinese, Professional & Vocational Education