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title = "Academic Chinese: From Corpora to Language Teaching",
abstract = "The past several decades of research in Chinese applied linguistics have seen rapid developments in corpus infrastructure building and exploitation. However, one area in which systematic research is still lacking involves academic Chinese. In this chapter, we describe the construction of written academic Chinese corpora at the National Taiwan Normal University and University of California, Los Angeles and report preliminary results of research based on these corpora as well as their pedagogical applications in developing teaching materials for advanced Chinese language learning. Theoretical and practical issues in academic Chinese and the role of corpora in academic language pedagogy are discussed.",
author = "Chen, {Howard Ho Jan} and Hongyin Tao",
note = "Funding Information: Hongyin Tao wishes to acknowledge the following individual and institutional support: Weidong Zhan and his team at Peking University, Ying Yang, and Yan Zhou for assistance with the UCLA CWAC corpus; Danjie Su, Xiaoxin Sun, and Yu-Wen Yao for participating in the development of the teaching materials; Jiajin Xu for constructive comments on an earlier version of the paper; Elizabeth Carter for both the translation of the teaching materials into English and the editorial assistance with this article; National Taiwan Normal University for support with a Distinguished Chair Professorship (2015–17); the UCLA Academic Senate faculty research grant (AY2014-16); and the U.S. Department of Education, grant #P229A140026, to the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER), The Pennsylvania State University. However, the contents developed under the grant do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Finally, we are grateful to the editors and anonymous referees for the constructive comments and suggestions on an earlier version of the paper. Any remaining shortcomings are of course entirely our own. Funding Information: Acknowledgements Howard Chen would like to thank the Ministry of Sciences and Technology, Taiwan, for supporting the related corpus research. He is also very grateful that this research is partially supported by the “Aim for the Top University Project” of the National Taiwan Normal University, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. Funding Information: This corpus was part of a larger research project sponsored by the US Department of Education in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at The Pennsylvania State University. The objectives in developing this corpus are threefold (Tao 2013): (1) To better understand the linguistic features of Chinese academic discourse as well as the typological similarities and differences of these features cross-linguistically and cross-culturally; (2) to explore the pedagogical implications of linguistics research that can foster language learning in such areas as grammar instruction, pragmatic competence as well as cultural understanding; and (3) to develop a set of L2 Chinese language teaching materials, for advanced Mandarin Chinese learners, that are educational, authentic, and pedagogically effective. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-13-3570-9_4",
language = "English",
series = "Chinese Language Learning Sciences",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "57--79",
booktitle = "Chinese Language Learning Sciences",
address = "United States",
}