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

This book is a fascicule of the third edition in the series.

From the perspectives of grammatical knowledge, grammatical acquisition, and grammar teaching, this book analyzes and explores the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features of the auxiliary word “zhe”. In terms of grammatical knowledge, the book mainly elaborates on the nature, syntactic distribution, grammatical meaning, and pragmatic functions of the auxiliary word “zhe”. Regarding grammatical acquisition, it primarily adopts the perspective of Chinese-foreign contrastive analysis to identify the characteristic corresponding relationships between the auxiliary word “zhe” and its equivalent forms in other languages, and analyzes the causes of errors based on the error phenomena among international students. In the aspect of grammar teaching, it mainly examines the teaching content related to the auxiliary word “zhe” in textbooks and exercise questions, and provides teaching designs according to the commonly used sentence patterns of the auxiliary word “zhe”.

Hu Jianfeng has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics of Shanghai Normal University and is an associate professor at the International College of Chinese Studies, Shanghai Normal University. His research focuses on text linguistics and pragmatics. Pro. Hu has published more than 30 papers in professional journals such as Chinese Teaching in the World, Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies and Linguistic Sciences, presided over a number of national and provincial social science projects, and published two monographs.

Cui Weizhen, the Author, is a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics of Shanghai Normal University and an associate professor at the School of Education of Sanda University, whose research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and Chinese second language acquisition. She has published more than ten papers in core journals such as Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, and has independently (or collaboratively) published three monographs (or textbooks).

1. Multidimensional Analysis of Linguistic Points: Based on the grammar syllabus for teaching Chinese as a foreign language, this book analyzes and explains the syntactic and semantic features of the auxiliary word “zhe” from the perspectives of structure, semantics, and pragmatics. It strives to ensure concise syntactic structures, clear sentence semantics, and engaging pragmatic functions.

2. High Frequency of Syntactic Structure Selection: Using the BCC Corpus as a basis, the book conducts statistical analysis on the occurrence frequency of the syntactic structures of the auxiliary word “zhe”. It also describes in detail the structural, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of each sentence pattern according to the semantic features of verbs, facilitating the teaching and learning of the syntactic structures of the auxiliary word “zhe”.

3. Practicality of Teaching Designs: Teaching designs are developed around the commonly used sentence patterns of the auxiliary word “zhe”. The selected corpus and scenarios related to the auxiliary word “zhe” are typical and authentic, and the teaching designs for commonly used sentence patterns are as close to real life as possible. In line with concepts such as “stratification and grading”, the teaching of the commonly used sentence patterns of the auxiliary word “zhe” is expanded, while ensuring the recurrence rate to guarantee a progressive acquisition process.

It is recommended for international Chinese language teachers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students majoring in International Chinese Language Education, to read.