主讲人简介：
Lening Liu was born and raised in Xi’an City of China. He received his BA in Chinese Language and Literature and MA in History of Chinese Language from Shaanxi Normal University, and his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Florida in the United States. Since 1995, he has been teaching Chinese at Columbia University in the City of New York. Now, he is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Director of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages Program.
Prof. Lening Liu is a member of Executive Committee of The International Society for Chinese Teaching（世界汉语教学学会常务理事）. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Chinese Language Education (《国际中文教育学报》) and the editor of TCSOL Studies (《华文教学与研究》).
内容简介：
This presentation attempts to shed lights on the connection between the register grammar and the development of linguistic competence.
Having examined the current state of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, the presenter points out that there is a bottleneck in the profession that has prevented the learners of Chinese from developing skills in written Chinese and formal spoken Chinese. Utilizing the latest findings in Chinese register grammar (Feng, 2024; Liu, 2024), this presentation categorizes Chinese registers in four: speakable Chinese, writeable Chinese, readable Chinese and sayable Chinese and claims that developing the linguistic competence in Chinese means to develop the ability in using these four registers effectively and appropriately. To achieve such competence, we propose a pedagogy that bases the writeable Chinese on the speakable Chinese (talking into texts and talking on paper) and bases the sayable Chinese on the readable Chinese (converting written texts into conversations).
The presenter will use actual teaching plans and PPT to demonstrate how to connect the different registers and develop the linguistic competence as a whole.