“Grammar Series for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language” 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 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 fascicule of the 8 summary series.

In the past two decades, significant progress has been made in the research on grammar acquisition of Chinese as a second language. This book makes a detailed summary and introduction of the research results of grammar acquisition of Chinese as a second language in the past 20 years, aiming to make an objective and practical analysis and evaluation, and further illustrates the space for further exploration or breakthrough. This book is divided into two volumes with the first volume summarizing and commenting on the research results of the acquisition of parts of speech and sentence constituent and the second volume (this volume) comprehensively teasing out the research results of phrase, sentence pattern and discourse acquisition. In terms of this volume, the phrase part mainly observes its acquisition as a formal whole from the perspective of “structures”. The sentence pattern part includes Chinese common sentence pattern and special sentence pattern, and the discourse part includes written and spoken discourse, etc.

    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 as a second language acquisition. She has published several papers in professional journals, such as Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies and Applied Linguistics and one academic monograph, and written several textbooks.

    Li Zonghong is a PhD in Chinese language and philology from East China Normal University, as well as an associate professor and postgraduate supervisor in School of Literature, Guangxi Minzu University. Her research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and Chinese as a second language acquisition. She has published more than ten papers in publications, such as Contemporary Rhetoric and Research on Chinese as a Foreign Language, and edited a series of Chinese textbooks.