Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) | The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA

漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報 / Chinese as a Second Language — The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CSL), is the academic journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CLTA). The journal publishes peer-reviewed original articles in English or Chinese (either simplified or traditional characters) that make a significant contribution to the theory and practice of Chinese as a second language. Articles in all areas of Chinese pedagogy and acquisition are welcome, especially those that are empirically based and offer new perspectives and/or refine or challenge existing practices of teaching Chinese as a second language. Contributions in areas such as Chinese program management, curriculum design and teaching Chinese culture and literature in Chinese language classrooms are also welcome. In addition to research articles, CSL also publishes book reviews, commentaries and short contributions that report on new discovery and development in the field of Chinese as a second language.
漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報 / Chinese as a Second Language — The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA is the continuation of the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (JCLTA).
John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher as of Volume 51 (2016).

CSL publishes its articles Online First.

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ISSN 2451-828X | E-ISSN 2451-8298
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/csl

Sample issue: CSL 52:1

Board

Editor

Dana Scott Bourgerie | Brigham Young University | clta_csl

byu.edu

Associate Editor

Baozhang He | College of the Holy Cross

Review Editor

Shuai Li | Georgia State University

Editorial Board

Yen-Chen Hao | University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Baozhang He | College of the Holy Cross

Song Jiang | University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Yu Li | Loyola Marymount University

Jiang Liu | University of South Carolina

Seth Wiener | Carnegie Melon University

Yi Xu | University of Pittsburgh

Jia Yang | University of Dayton

Fangyuan Yuan | US Naval Academy

Hang Zhang | George Washington University

Jie Zhang | University of Oklahoma

Shenglan Zhang | Iowa State University

Yongping Zhu | University of Notre Dame

Subscription Info

Current issue: 56:3, available as of May 2022

Next issue: 57:1, expected October 2022

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Volume 58 (2023): 3 issues; ca. 300 pp.	EUR 100.00	EUR 113.00
Volume 57 (2022): 3 issues; ca. 300 pp.	EUR 100.00	EUR 111.00

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Available back-volumes

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Complete backset (Vols. 51‒56; 2016‒2021)	18 issues; 1,800 pp.	EUR 577.00	EUR 640.00
Volumes 55‒56 (2020‒2021)	3 issues; avg. 300 pp.	EUR 100.00 each	EUR 111.00 each
Volume 54 (2019)	3 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 98.00	EUR 109.00
Volume 53 (2018)	3 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 95.00	EUR 106.00
Volume 52 (2017)	3 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 92.00	EUR 103.00
Volume 51 (2016)	3 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 92.00	EUR 100.00

Issues

21 July 2022

基于华语流行歌曲的词汇附带习得研究

王珊 [ Shan Wang ] & 王少 [ Shaoming Wang ] | CSL 57:1 (2022) pp. 21–57

日籍学习者对汉语空间移动事件描述方法之研究

布目孝子 [ Takako Nunome ]、吴淑铃 [ Shu-Ling Wu ] & 王骏 [ Jun Wang ] | CSL 57:1 (2022) pp. 1–20

9 June 2022

Perceptions of effective foreign language teaching : A comparative study of Chinese

Yan Xie & Laura Ziebart | CSL 57:1 (2022) pp. 58–84

2 June 2022

Xia Liang [梁霞]. 2020. Teaching Chinese in American Colleges [美国大学汉语教育研究]

Reviewed by Shaohua Fang & Yi Xu | CSL 57:1 (2022) pp. 85–90

22 April 2022

Vivian Ling . 2018. The Field of Chinese Language Education in the US: A Retrospective of the 20th Century

Reviewed by Madeline K. Spring | CSL 56:3 (2021) pp. 259–267

8 April 2022

「粵語語法學習概覽」的建構：廣東話第二語言語法學甚麼？何時教？

Hugo Wing-Yu Tam | CSL 56:3 (2021) pp. 209–228

A multimodal approach to the technological representations in CFL textbooks

Qi Zhang & Angela Leahy | CSL 56:3 (2021) pp. 229–254

1 April 2022

汪海霞 & 刘刚. 2021. 《跨文化交际案例—汉语教师海外工作实训教程》 & . 2021 《生存攻略案例—汉语教师海外生活实训教程》

審查刘立新 [ Liu Lixin ] | CSL 56:3 (2021) pp. 255–258

22 March 2022

Tone and vocabulary learning for classroom-based L2 Mandarin learners : Pedagogical implications from current tone word processing research

Zhiyin Renee Dong | CSL 56:3 (2021) pp. 179–208

4 February 2022

The effects of linguistic measures in the analysis of L2 Chinese descriptive writing

Jianling Liao | CSL 56:2 (2021) pp. 118–145

28 January 2022

Ying Jin , Chunmei Guan , Cilei Han , Zoey Liu , Diane Neubauer & Erica Pollard . 2021. Go Far with Chinese 1st edition [趣学中文]

Reviewed by Xiaofei Tang | CSL 56:2 (2021) pp. 173–178

25 January 2022

李智强. 2018. 汉语语音习得与教学研究

審查 Chunsheng Yang | CSL 56:2 (2021) pp. 168–172

21 January 2022

Translanguaging as a pedagogical practice in Chinese language and (inter)culture courses

Yu Li & Jin Liu | CSL 56:2 (2021) p. 89

10 January 2022

Toward a new normal in foreign language classrooms : Attitudes and perceptions of committed learners of Chinese towards CALL

Hsuan-Ying Liu | CSL 56:2 (2021) pp. 146–167

7 December 2021

Staying afloat : Emic perceptions of learning Chinese characters

Susan Gary Walters | CSL 56:1 (2021) pp. 49–76

5 November 2021

Zhini Zeng [曾稚妮]. 2019. Perform Chun Cao: A Multimedia Advanced Chinese Course [体演春草: 高级汉语视听说教程]

Reviewed by Yawei Li [李亚伟] | CSL 56:1 (2021) pp. 82–87

29 October 2021

Xin Zhang & Xiaobin Jian . 2021. The Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy: Negotiating Intentions and Expectations in Another Culture

Reviewed by Jun Yang | CSL 56:1 (2021) pp. 77–81

1 October 2021

The influence of L1 translation familiarity on the acquisition of L2 Chinese antonyms

Shuyi Yang | CSL 56:1 (2021) pp. 21–48

11 August 2021

Multimedia learning materials for second language learners : A comparison of two kinds of videos

Xiaoling He , Haojiang Ying & Sureenate Jaratjarungkiat | CSL 55:3 (2020) pp. 175–192

Success factors for a Mandarin bilingual program : An autoethnographic case study

Wei Liu | CSL 55:3 (2020) pp. 208–229

Comprehensible narratives and connected grammar : Textbook design for classical Chinese as a foreign language

Lei Yang | CSL 55:3 (2020) pp. 193–207

Jianhua Bai [白建华] & Yang Wang [汪洋]. 2015. China in Depth: An Integrated Course in Advanced Chinese [焦点中国：高级汉语综合教程]

審查梁新欣 [ Hsin-hsin Liang ] | CSL 55:3 (2020) pp. 243–247

Bryan W. Van Norden . 2019. Classical Chinese for everyone: A guide for absolute beginners

審查焦立为 [ Liwei Jiao ] | CSL 55:3 (2020) pp. 230–238

Chungeng Zhu . 2019. Chinese aspectual particle le: A comprehensive guide [汉语动态助词“了”：一了百了]

Reviewed by Yang Zhao | CSL 55:3 (2020) pp. 239–242

16 July 2021

台湾对外汉语教学学科研究的发展与前景：以年会论文为例

赵帝凯 [ Di-kai Chao ] & Riccardo Moratto | CSL 56:1 (2021) pp. 1–20

Guidelines

Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal's online submission and manuscript tracking site (see Submission).

If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editor by e-mail.

The CSL Style Sheet is provided in the first issue of each volume and is also available online: http://clta-us.org/publications/jclta-style-sheet/

Books for review should be sent to the Review Editor.

Readers who wish to comment on articles published in CSL may send letters – written in either Chinese or English - to the Editor. Selected letters will be published in the “Letters from Readers” column. These letters will also be shared with original authors, who will have the opportunity to respond in the same issue of the Journal.

Dana Scott Bourgerie
Email: clta_cslbyu.edu

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Subjects

Linguistics

Language acquisition

Applied linguistics

Language teaching

Sino-Tibetan languages

Main BIC Subject

CJA: Language teaching theory & methods

Main BISAC Subject

FOR000000: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General