Locative phrase and descriptive discourse in L2 Chinese

Chinese as a Second Language Research Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1515/caslar-2021-2001

Arnaud Arslangul, Marzena Watorek

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Abstract

Abstract This study examines the way in which French-speaking learners of L2 Chinese construct a type of discourse called static spatial description. It involves the analysis of an oral corpus collected from two groups of native speakers of Chinese and French, and two groups of learners of L2 Chinese at two proficiency levels (low and intermediate). The data collected consist of the description of a poster. The results show that linguistic devices used in Chinese and French to encode the locative phrase and its syntactic functions have an impact on the presence and placement of the locative in utterances encoding spatial localization. These properties in turn influence the way in which the informational content develops across the utterances in the discourse. There is a clear development of proficiency between the two L2 groups. However, intermediate learners are not yet able to organize information on the discourse level like native Chinese speakers do.

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二语汉语的位置短语与描述语篇

摘要本研究考察了二语法语学习者构建一种称为静态空间描述的话语类型的方式。它包括对两组母语为汉语和法语的人以及两组处于两个水平（低和中等）的二语汉语学习者的口语语料库的分析。收集的数据包括海报的描述。结果表明，汉语和法语中用于编码方位短语的语言手段及其句法功能会影响方位词在编码空间定位的话语中的存在和位置。这些特性反过来影响话语中信息内容在话语中的发展方式。两个二语组之间的熟练程度有了明显的提高。然而，中级学习者还不能像母语为汉语的人那样在话语层面组织信息。

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Chinese as a Second Language Research Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR) focuses on research on the acquisition, development, and use of Chinese as a Second Language. It supports scholars and researchers from different linguistic fields, and serves as a forum to discuss, investigate, and better understand Chinese as a Second Language. Each issue (2 per year) of the journal publishes three papers in Chinese and three papers in English; summaries are always provided both in Chinese and English. We are especially interested in publishing articles and research papers that investigate how empirical findings of CSL research can advance and develop better Chinese language teaching methodologies, explore the implications of CSL research for theoretical developments and practical applications, focus on the acquisition and use of varieties of CSL, study the nature of interaction between native speakers and non-native speakers of Chinese, address major issues of second language acquisition from the perspective of CSL, analyze the ways in which language is both shaped by culture and is the medium through which culture is created.