This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Volume I starts off with an overview of the field by G. Richard Tucker in which he identifies two areas: innovative language education and language education policy. The overal focus of the papers to follow focus on the individual language learner, how that individual, in given contexts or in interaction with specific others, develops a command of a first language, of two or more first languages, or of a second language, in home and in classroom settings. At the same time, cutting across these variables, there is a gradual shifting of attention from investigations of the language learning process to proposals for language teaching curricula and syllabuses.

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M. A. K. HALLIDAY

De Gruyter eBooks (1974)

Μ. Α. Κ. Halliday

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Notes on teaching Chinese to foreign learners

Journal of World Languages (2014)

Μ. Α. Κ. Halliday

Abstract Recently there has been considerable discussion over “how to teach Chinese to foreign learners”. This article investigates the common problems which Chinese teachers encounter in teaching Chinese to the speakers of English. It points out that (1) for foreign adult learners who are just starting out to learn Chinese, the best teachers are those who speak the same language as their students do rather than native Chinese teachers; (2) the later the students start learning Chinese characters, the faster and easier for them to pick up the language, and hence, Chinese characters should not be introduced at the early stage; and (3) one should aim at achieving phonological accuracy in Chinese.

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Elsevier eBooks (1975)