“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, which 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 first-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, 8 summary series, 26 book series, and 1 collection of essays.

This book is a fascicle of this book series.

Verb reduplication and related forms are the key and difficult points in the grammar teaching of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. In this regard, this book takes the problem-oriented approach and tries to solve the problems of “why, how and when” to teach verb reduplication and related forms through the transformation of ontological theoretical research and the combination of theoretical analyses and teaching guidance. Theoretically, it sorts out and discusses the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic functions of verb reduplication and related forms. In terms of acquisition, it analyses the error-prone problems of foreign students. As for teaching, it clarifies the content and status of verb reduplication and related forms in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and manages to provide some teaching ideas and methods.

Edited by Shao Hongliang, written by Shan Baoshun

Shao Hongliang has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University and is a doctoral supervisor at the School of Chinese Studies and Exchange of Shanghai International Studies University. His research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and international Chinese language education. He has published more than fifty papers in professional journals such as ZHONGGUO YUWEN, Chinese Teaching in the World and Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies. His book On the Redundancy of Chinese Syntactic-Semantic Markers won the prize for the MOE Award for Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education Institutions (Youth Achievement Award) by the Ministry of Education.

Shan Baoshun has a PhD in Chinese Philology from Beijing Normal University and is an associate professor at the School of Humanities, Hangzhou Normal University. His research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and international Chinese education. Professor Shan has published more than ten papers in Chinese Language Learning and other professional journals, and one academic monograph.

Designed for front-line teachers of Chinese as a second language, this book popularizes the basic theoretical knowledge, teaching theory and methods of verb reduplication. This book, adopting the Q&A format, introduces theoretical knowledge in detail, breaks down “difficult problems” from multiple perspectives, and analyzes the problems with real examples. Most of the problems are formulated with the practical needs of teaching, and are based on real errors and common problems of international students. Furthermore, in the teaching section, this book combines theory with practice and comprehensively discusses the teaching problems of verb reduplication, which helps teachers to open up their minds and give more abundant and effective teaching design.

This book is recommended to international Chinese language teachers and undergraduate and graduate students of international Chinese language education.