“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 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 fascicle of this series.

Measuring or coding with numerals is important in daily life and even for teaching Chinese as a foreign language. This book explores the categories and structures of Chinese numerals, as well as the characteristics, usage and acquisition of numeral-related expressions in a more comprehensive way, which focuses on the norms relevant to numeral-related expressions and common errors in written compositions of international students, the cultural phenomena of numerals such as the preferred numeral figures in Chinese and the special meanings of certain numeral, and the main principles and methods of teaching numerals in Chinese as a foreign language. This book provides certain references for the ontological study of Chinese numerals and the teaching of numerals.

Li Jingrong 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 four national and provincial projects, published five books and textbooks, and more than 50 papers in ZHONGGUOYUWEN, Chinese Teaching in the World and other specialized academic journals.

Zhong Xiaoyong has a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University, and is an associate professor at the College of Humanities, Hangzhou Normal University. His research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Professor Zhong has presided over two projects under the National Social Science Fund of China, and published three books and a number of essays in the journals of ZHONGGUOYUWEN, Chinese Teaching in the World, and other journals.

Adopting a holistic overview and a problem-oriented approach, this book introduces numerals from four aspects: theoretical knowledge of numerals, usage of numbers, numeral culture, and the teaching of numerals, seeking to embody the three basic principles as a teaching reference book: popularity, relevance, and practicality.

This book is recommended to front-line language education teachers, language teaching researchers and postgraduate students in international Chinese language education and other language education majors.