This book focuses on applied research for Chinese
second language teaching. Based on the commonalities of basic verbal semantic
categories and parametric differences across languages, it proposes a
telicity-oriented teaching approach. Through teaching experiments, it develops
a new mindset and method for Chinese verb teaching that conforms to linguistic
universals and fully utilizes positive transfer from the learners’ mother
tongue grammar. This has, to a certain extent, verified the practical
application value of the author’s proposed verb telicity category theory. Under
the guidance of the telicity-oriented teaching approach, the complete teaching
system includes theoretical foundation, theoretical advantages, theoretical
framework, instructional design and teaching roles, which provides a brand-new
supplementary teaching approach with considerable application value in teaching
practice.
Xuan Yue is a Professor and PhD Supervisor at Beijing
Language and Culture University. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees
from Northeast Normal University, a master’s degree from Leiden University, Netherlands,
her PhD from Peking University, and completed postdoctoral research at Tsinghua
University. Her main research focuses on Chinese grammar, linguistic theory,
linguistic typology, and grammar teaching. Professor Xuan has presided over 3
projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, 1 project of the Center
for Language Education and Cooperation (Ministry of Education), 1 project of
the Beijing Social Science Fund, 1 project of the China Postdoctoral Science
Foundation, and more than 10 university-level projects, and published over 30
academic papers in CSSCI-indexed journals. Her monograph Telicity Category
and Chinese Resultative Constructions was awarded the 20th Wang Li
Linguistics Prize for Young Scholars (2023) and the 9th Higher School
Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social
Sciences) for Young Scholars (2024). In 2013, she was selected for the Beijing
Higher Education Young Talent Program.
With profound theoretical linguistic knowledge and acute academic
insight, the author has long focused on the category of telicity in Chinese. In
her monograph Telicity Category and Chinese Resultative Constructions,
she systematically constructs and demonstrates theories concerning the telicity
category and resultative constructions in Chinese. This work has been awarded
both the Wang Li Linguistics Prize and the Higher School Outstanding Scientific
Research Achievement Award, winning wide recognition in the academic community.
She has now further applied this cutting-edge theory to the field of
international Chinese education and completed the present work. An Empirical
Study on Chinese Resultative Construction Teaching from the Perspective of
Telicity Category, reflecting her academic pursuit of “theory driving
practice and practice nourishing theory”.
The value of this book lies not only in its exploration of teaching
methods for Chinese as a second language, but also in its interdisciplinary
implications. The perspective of “parametric differences under linguistic
universals” highlighted in the book also provides valuable references for
optimizing verb processing models in natural language processing, machine
translation and related fields. In short, this is an outstanding work that
integrates theoretical innovation, empirical research and teaching practice. It
is not only academically cutting-edge but also educationally insightful.
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