《Contrastive Research & Crosslinguistic Influence (Revised Edition)》

This book is an up-to-date introduction and guide to crosslinguistic studies and the field of second language learning and teaching(SLLT) related to Chinese and English. The first part of the book provides a scholarly and well-illustrated theoretical and historical background, which is essential in understanding the development of contrastive analysis and crosslinguistics influence on the teaching and learning of second languages. The second part of the book analyzes important syntactic patterns from various linguistics levels and comments on previous studies with new empirical data which come from qualitative as well as quantitative investigations...