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Researching and Teaching Second Language Speech Acts in the Chinese Context

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Authors:
  1. Cynthia Lee

    1. The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

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  • Examines the interface between research and teaching of speech acts in the Chinese context
  • Discusses the development of speech acts of Chinese learners of English from childhood to adulthood
  • Discusses the relations between Chinese English learners’ speech act performances, and their first language and cultural concepts
  • Provides pedagogical ideas and tasks for critical reflections while reading

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Key Concepts and Issues

    • Cynthia Lee
    Pages 1-9

  3. Developing and Researching L2 Speech Act Competence

    • Cynthia Lee
    Pages 11-27

  4. Chinese Culture, Language, and L1 and L2 Speech Act Production

    • Cynthia Lee
    Pages 29-50

  5. Trajectory of Chinese English Learners’ L2 Speech Act Development

    • Cynthia Lee
    Pages 51-62

  6. Teaching Speech Acts to Chinese Learners of English

    • Cynthia Lee
    Pages 63-85

  7. Concluding Remarks

    • Cynthia Lee
    Pages 87-93

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 95-110
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About this book

This book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context. It is written for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers and readers who are interested in interlanguage pragmatics research, acquisition and teaching, with particular reference to speech acts performed by Chinese learners of English, and their relationships with the learners’ first language and cultural concepts. It provides a more advanced understanding of the production and development of speech acts of Chinese learners of English from the cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, L1 and L2 developmental perspectives, drawing on relevant second language acquisition theoretical frameworks. It also recommends research-informed pedagogies that are applicable to other learners of English.

Reviews

“As an accessible and enjoyable read, Lee’s book is a valuable addition to the current literature on L2 speech acts. … This book will be particularly appealing to researchers interested in Chinese EFL learners’ L2 pragmatic development, and also to ELT practitioners including but not limited to tertiary English teachers who are keen to implement a pragmatics-focused pedagogy based on sound language learning theories.” (Chris Kwan, The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 6 (2), 2019)

Authors and Affiliations

  • The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

    Cynthia Lee

About the author

Dr. Cynthia Lee is Associate Professor of Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Interlanguage pragmatics is one of her research areas. Over the past 12 years, she has secured two prestigious government-fund research grants to investigate the acquisition and development of L2 speech acts of Chinese learners of English from childhood to their teens, and has published numerous articles in pragmatics journals, including Pragmatics, International Review of Pragmatics, Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, and Journal of Pragmatics. A book chapter on Chinese English learners’ speech act behaviours and Chinese culture will appear in Chen’s edited volume Politeness Phenomena Across Chinese Genres, published by Equinox in October, 2017. She has also taught the postgraduate courses of “Pragmatics Learning and Teaching”, “Discourse Analysis” and “Second Language Acquisition”.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Researching and Teaching Second Language Speech Acts in the Chinese Context

  • Authors: Cynthia Lee

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8980-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8979-4Published: 13 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4288-2Published: 23 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8980-0Published: 02 June 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 110

  • Topics: Language Education, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition and Development, Language Teaching

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