“Series of Teaching Foreigners Chinese Grammar” is the achievement of “Research and Development of Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and Teaching Reference Grammar Series (Multi-volume)”, a major project of National Social Science Fund of China sponsored by Professor Qi Huyang, which has been selected as the “2022 Founding Project of National Publication Foundation”. As an important reference book for international Chinese language education, it aims to build and improve the “Grammar System of Chinese Teaching” for foreign students to meet the development needs of the new era. It mainly serves the first-line Chinese teachers, researchers, graduate students and undergraduates majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. This series consists of 39 volumes, including 4 outline series, 26 book series, 8 summary series, and 1 collection of essays.

This book is a fascicule of the 8 summary series.

In the past two decades, the research on grammar acquisition of Chinese as a second language has made significant progress in terms of both research content and methodology, and the findings are significant. Divided into two volumes with the first one on the acquisition of parts of speech and the second one on the acquisition of sentence constituents, this book, in a comprehensive and systematic way, presents the findings of parts of speech acquisition (nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, auxiliaries, and other words) and sentence constituent acquisition (subjects, objects, attributes, adverbial modifiers, and complements) in Chinese second language acquisition in the past 20 years, and provides an objective and practical analysis and evaluation, as well as a discussion and outlook on the space and direction of future research.

Fan Wei is a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University and a postgraduate tutor in the International College for Chinese Studies of Nanjing Normal University whose research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and Chinese second language acquisition. She has published several papers in professional journals such as Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies and one academic monograph, and written several textbooks.

Cao Chunjing is a PhD in Chinese International Education from Shanghai International Studies University and a postgraduate tutor in the Department of Chinese International Education of Hangzhou Dianzi University whose research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and Chinese second language acquisition. She has presided over a project of the National Social Science Foundation of China and has published more than 10 papers in Modern Foreign Languages and other academic journals.

Li Hong has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University, and is an associate professor and postgraduate tutor in the School of Chinese Language and Literature of Shaanxi Normal University, whose research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar. She has presided over and completed one national social science project and published one academic monograph and dozens of academic papers.