“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 presided over 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 front-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 fascicle of this series.

This book provides a systematic overview of quantifiers from five aspects, including the classification and characteristics of quantifiers, noun quantifiers, verbal and time quantifiers, compound and borrowed quantifiers, and the design of teaching quantifiers. The first part mainly discusses the definition, categories and functions of quantifiers. The second to fourth parts identify the array quantifiers that are easily confused by international students and try to explain them from cognitive and cultural perspectives. The fifth part gives concrete examples of teaching design, including classroom introduction, explanation method, practice design and other teaching steps. All the five parts are relatively independent and interrelated, and constitute a knowledge framework for teaching quantifiers together.

Li Jingrong (Editor-in-Chief) has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University (SHNU), and is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the SHNU International College of Chinese Studies. His research mainly focuses on functional linguistics, Chinese grammar and international Chinese language education. Professor Li has presided over and completed 4 national and provincial projects, published 5 books and textbooks, and more than 50 papers in ZHONGGUOYUWEN, Chinese Teaching in the World and other specialized academic journals.

Sun Pengfei is a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing Language and Culture University, an interviewer for the CTCSOL and an associate professor at the College of International Education of Zhejiang Gongshang University. His research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Professor Sun has published more than twenty papers in publications such as Chinese Teaching in the World, Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, Chinese Language Learning, Research on Chinese as a Second Language, etc. He has presided over three provincial and ministerial-level projects, participated in one major project of the National Social Science Fund of China, and published one monograph and one textbook. He has been dispatched to Chungnam National University in South Korea and Huachiew Chalermprakiet University in Thailand as an official teacher and visiting professor of the Ministry of Education to engage in teaching

This book is designed for front-line teachers of Chinese as a second language to popularize the theoretical knowledge, teaching theory and methods of quantifiers. The book adopts a Q&A format, introducing theoretical knowledge in depth, breaking down “difficult problems” from multiple perspectives, and analyzing the problems with real examples. Most of the questions are formulated with the practical needs of teaching, and are based on real errors and common problems of international students. In the end, theory and practice are combined to give comprehensive discussion of teaching quantifiers, which helps teachers to open up their minds and make richer and more effective teaching design.

This book is recommended to international Chinese language teachers and undergraduate and graduate students of international Chinese language education.