Resumen de "Construction-Chunk" Theory and the New Angle of International Chinese Teaching and Research: a Case Analysis on Complements of Mandarin Chinese
In the past fifty years, under the influence of traditional grammatical study of modern Chinese, people working in the field of teaching Chinese as a second language and International Chinese Teaching have been treating grammar teaching (i.e. teaching of sentence patterns) and vocabulary teaching as two independent parts. As a result, many language units between lexical words and sentences in real life communication have been neglected although these units play an important role in both vocabulary teaching and sentence pattern teaching in International Chinese Teaching and deserve due attention within any teaching approach. Based on the “Construction-Chunk” Theory, and guided by the concept of “collocation”, the article analyses complements of Mandarin Chinese in order to discuss the function of the “Construction-Chunk” Theory on International Chinese Teaching and research
