This is a book in the series “MOE Supported Projects of Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences in Universities”, which discusses vocabulary teaching based on the characteristics of Chinese lexicon and rules of L2 vocabulary acquisition. The book centers the multi-perspective and multi-layer discussion of lexicology, vocabulary acquisition and vocabulary teaching around four major topics – compound words, polysemous words, lexical chunks, and morphemes, attempting to integrate Chinese vocabulary teaching with lexicology and vocabulary acquisition research. Based on facts and evidence, the book employs multiple empirical methods to transform the paradigms of research on vocabulary teaching and to provide scientific, effective teaching strategies and methods for expanding L2 Chinese learners’ vocabulary and deepening their lexical knowledge. 

Zhang Bo, D.Litt., is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Research Institute of International Chinese Language Education at BLCU, whose research interests lie in Chinese lexicology, etymology, and CSL vocabulary teaching. Dr. Zhang has hosted several research projects sponsored by China’s National Social Science Fund and Ministry of Education, authored five academic books and 80 or so journal articles, and been the editor of several textbooks and collections of papers. Dr. Zhang has won several state- and ministry-level teaching and research awards and a State Council special grant.

1. Observing the characteristics of Chinese lexicon and the rules of L2 vocabulary acquisition, and trying to break the boundaries between researches on vocabulary teaching, L1 vocabulary and vocabulary acquisition;

2. Adopting corpus-based statistical analyses, lab experiments and classroom experiments to base the research on facts and evidence and avoid pure theoretical inference and experience-based personal judgment. 

For Chinese lexicon researchers as well as teachers and students who are interested in Chinese vocabulary teaching and acquisition