Modal Adverbs Teacher’s Manual Learn Chinese Pinyin Book

“Series of Teaching Foreigners Chinese Grammar” is the achievement of “Research and Development of Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and Teaching Reference Grammar Series (Multi-volume)”, a major project of National Social Science Fund of China sponsored by Professor Qi Huyang, and has been selected as the “2022 Founding Project of National Publication Foundation”. As an important reference book for international Chinese language education, it aims to build and improve the “Grammar System of Chinese Teaching” for foreign students to meet the development needs of the new era. It mainly serves the front-line Chinese teachers, researchers, graduate students and undergraduates majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. This series consists of 39 volumes, including 4 outline series, 26 book series, 8 summary series, and 1 collection of essays.

This book is a fascicule of the first edition in the series of 26 volumes.

Designed for front-line teachers engaged in teaching Chinese as a second language and based on the principles of universality and practicability, this book comprehends 60 common problems of modal adverbs in second language teaching from three aspects including theory, knowledge acquisition and teaching. In the theoretical part, the common problems of modal adverbs as a “class” are answered from a macro perspective. In the knowledge acquisition part, the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic problems of individual modal adverbs and the identification of common confusable words are analyzed based on the international students’ acquisition bias and common problems. In the teaching part, the practical problems of modal adverbs in teaching and learning are discussed in the light of the combination of theory and practice.