Zheng-sheng Zhang | John Benjamins

Zhang, Zheng-sheng 2023 Review of Yuan, He & Hu (2023): Pedagogical Grammar and Grammar Pedagogy in Chinese as a Second Language Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 58:1, pp. 97–102 | Review

Zhang, Zheng-sheng 2019 Reading Into a New China: Deciphering a changing society (Second Edition), by Duanduan Li and Irene Liu Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 54:1, pp. 84–92 | Review

Zhang, Zheng-sheng 2017 Intermediate spoken Chinese: A practical approach to fluency in spoken Mandarin , by Cornelius C. Kubler Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52:3, pp. 312–319 | Review

Zhang, Zheng-sheng 2016 A multi-dimensional corpus study of mixed compounds in Chinese Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning, Tao, Hongyin (ed.), pp. 215–238 | Article

Certain mixed compounds, consisting of two synonymous components (one classical and one non-classical), are ideal for investigating lexical stylistics, as they are semantically synonymous but stylistically contrastive with both of their components. They are investigated using Biber’s (1988)… read more

Zhang, Zheng-sheng 2016 From the Editor Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 51:3, p. | Article

Zhang, Zheng-sheng 2013 The classical elements in written Chinese: A multidimensional quantitative study Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2, pp. 157–180 | Article

There has been a common belief that the presence of classical Chinese elements may be an important characteristic of the written style in modern Chinese. An empirical study employing the multi-feature, multi-dimensional framework for studying register variation (Biber 1988) and the statistical… read more