Table of Contents

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List of contributors

1 Introduction: The learning and teaching of Cantonese as a second language

PART I

Linguistic perspective on the learning of Cantonese

2 The Cantonese mixed script

3 Written Cantonese and Cantonese textbooks in mainland China

4 How not to acquire tone: Cross-linguistic influence in prosody

5 Teaching literacy skills to Cantonese learners

PART II

Case studies from the Netherlands and Japan

6 Cantonese heritage language teaching in the Netherlands: Towards an inclusive classroom

7 The learning of Cantonese as a foreign language at Japanese universities

PART III

Current trends in Cantonese language education

8 Curriculum design and Cantonese teaching at a Hong Kong university

9 Teaching Cantonese tones to international university students in Hong Kong

10 A corpus-based approach to learning and teaching Cantonese

11 Textbook Cantonese romanization systems

12 Learning, teaching and performing Cantonese on the Internet

Index

About the Author

Siu-lun Lee is Senior Lecturer in the Yale-China Chinese Language Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has over 25 years of experience teaching Cantonese at the tertiary level. His research interests include applied linguistics, Cantonese studies, Chinese linguistics, sociolinguistics, language teaching pedagogy and second language learning. He is the author of the book series Modern Cantonese published by Routledge.

Reviews

"This edited book offers an important contribution to this subject. The book contributes to the field of language teaching, particularly to teaching Cantonese as a second language. This book will appeal to many language teachers, particularly to teachers of Cantonese as a second language. This book also attracts strong interest from scholars working in the field of Chinese linguistics, Cantonese studies, and sociolinguistics."Ng Hok Chung, Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University