“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  Funding 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 overview series, and 1 collection of essays.

This book is a volume of the overview series.

In the past 20 years, Chinese second language acquisition under the framework of second language acquisition theory has developed deeply and fruitfully in theoretical and comprehensive studies. This book reviews the theoretical studies on language transfer, error analysis, mediator theory, and acquisition sequence in second language acquisition, the studies on second language acquisition from different perspectives such as universal grammar, the studies on second language acquisition methods, and the studies on the external and internal influences on second language acquisition. In addition, the book provides an overview and evaluation of the research on the acquisition of Chinese grammatical items and related textbooks and works in the past 20 years, and looks forward to further research directions.

Fan Wei is a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University and a postgraduate supervisor 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.

Cui Weizhen is a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University and an associate professor in the School of Education of Shanda University, whose research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and Chinese second language acquisition. She has published several papers in Chinese Language Learning, TCSOL Studies, and other journals.

Zeng Lijuan is a Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics and Philology from Hunan Normal University and an associate professor in the International College of Chinese Language & Culture, whose research mainly focuses on Chinese second language acquisition and Chinese grammar. She has published more than ten papers in Applied Linguistics and other journals, published one academic monograph, edited one Chinese textbook, and presided over more than ten provincial and ministerial projects.

This book sorts through and evaluates the achievements of the research on grammar acquisition of Chinese as a second language in the past 20 years from a macro-theoretical perspective. This book excels in the review of various language acquisition theories and the prospect of their development, which enables readers to have a new understanding of the related research fields.

Recommended for front-line language education teachers, language teaching researchers and postgraduate students in international Chinese language education and other language education majors