This book addresses the problem of arbitrariness in the construction of Chinese inter-language corpora, draws on the construction experience of many types of corpora at home and abroad, and combines the author’s corpus construction practice and theoretical thinking, in order to study and formulate standards for the construction of Chinese inter-language corpora. This book is designed to promote the normalization, standardization and scientification of corpus construction, improve the construction level, ensure the healthy development, thus making it better serve Chinese language teaching and research all over the world, and providing references for the construction of other types of corpora.

Zhang Baolin is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Research Institute of International Chinese Language Education, BLCU, a adjunct professor at Northwest Normal University, a visiting professor at Fujian Normal University, a distinguished researcher at the Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Language Resources, and an academic advisor at the Open Research Centre for Language Teaching, Cognition and Acquisition of Minzu University of China. His research mainly focuses on Chinese teaching grammar, Chinese second language teaching and corpus linguistics. Zhang was awarded the second prize of the Eighth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities (Humanities and Social Sciences).

1. This book discusses the construction standard of Chinese inter-language corpus in general.

2. It investigates and analyses the construction and use of various existing corpora from the dimensions of region and country, corpus type and language, so as to lay the foundation for the standard research.

3. It discusses the construction standard issues from the perspectives of corpus construction process, corpus collection, recording and writing, labelling, retrieval, application, etc., and put forward the standard of each relevant field of corpus construction.

4. After reading this book, you can not only understand and study the construction of existing corpora at home and abroad, but also explore and summarize the construction process and standards of Chinese inter-language corpus.

This book is recommended to Chinese inter-language corpus constructors, constructors of other types of corpora, users of corpora, experts and scholars in the field of corpus linguistics.