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This course aims to develop students’ necessary awareness of the features of Chinese language and highlights relevance of the knowledge the Chinese language to teaching Chinese as a second language. The essential features of different components of the Chinese language and some fundamental theoretical issues on language teaching will be introduced. Students are encouraged to explore the applications of the knowledge they have learned in practical teaching. The provision of this course enables the students to design teaching plans on the selected language points individually.
本课程旨培养学生对汉语特点的基本意识，并注重将汉语本体知识与汉语作为第二语言教学相联系。本课程通过介绍汉语的重要特征与语言教学的基本理论问题，鼓励学生将所学知识应用于教学实践当中，使学生可以就特定语言点独立设计教学方案。
本书为北京大学中文系本科生必修基础课教材，包括绪论、语音、文字、词汇、语法、修辞六章。绪论部分说明了现代汉语的源头与发展历程，并对现代汉语方言做了介绍。语音部分分析了现代汉语语音元素，并讨论了语音的规范化问题。文字部分讨论了汉字的性质特点、结构、简化、前途等各个课题。词汇部分介绍了现代汉语的各种词汇类型。语法部分分析了现代汉语的语法特点和常见语法错误。修辞部分分析和讨论了各种修辞现象，揭示其背后的思维方式和认知过程。
本书是对外汉语专业本科学生的专业必修课教材，也可供其他对外汉语教学工作者、研究者参考。本书大致围绕着基础知识、专业知识、教学技能和教师素质四个方面予以展开，从对外汉语学科性质、语言学习与教学法流派、语言要素及文化教学、语言技能的教学、语言测试与成绩分析、第二语言习得、教材编写与使用、汉语传播与对外汉语教学发展这八个方面入手，配合以教学中的各种实例介绍对外汉语教学领域的相关知识。
This book provides an introduction to Standard Chinese phonetics and phonology, designed for English-speaking students and readers with no prior knowledge of linguistics. It explains from scratch the fundamentals of articulatory phonetics and phonology, and applies them to the phonetic and phonological properties of Chinese. After an introductory chapter which provides the linguistics characteristics, writing system and phonetics and phonology of the Chinese language, the body of the book covers the phonetics of consonants, vowels, and tone, syllable structure, the phonological system, the interaction of tone with stress and intonation, loanword adaptation, dialectal variation in Standard Chinese, and a comparison between the pinyin Romanization spelling system and phonetic transcription.
