Book or other resources on activities for teaching Chinese grammar?

Question

I am looking for a book or other resources about tasks and activities for teaching Chinese grammar. There are book on teaching English grammar, e.g. Task-based grammar teaching of English by Susanne Niemeier (Narr, 2017), but it is difficult to find resources on teaching Chinese grammar.

What I mean by tasks and activities are things like the board race in the YouTube video teaching english grammar through games. However, not every activity needs to be physical. The main criterion for the resource I am interested it is that it goes beyond explaining grammar and then handing out exercises on paper (fill in the blanks, reformulate sentences, ...).

The resource I am looking for should provide examples of activities, not just theory about teaching. A book (in English, German, French or Dutch) is fine; a YouTube channel dedicated to this topic would also work. (Grammar books from which you learn grammar don't count.)

Answer 1

There are a number of books that may be helpful:

• Jianhua Bai (Kenyon College, Middlebury College): Chinese Grammar Made Easy: A Practical and Effective Guide for Teachers, Yale University Press, 2008 (336 pages). According to the publisher's website, this book "presents instructors with innovative and classroom-tested techniques for teaching Chinese grammar". It is designed as a reference for teaching the "150 of the most fundamental and frequently used grammar points that students need to learn in order to communicate successfully". These grammar points include "A 比 B", "是 ... 的"， "为了", "一 ... 就 ...", etcetera. The book came out of a three-year research project and pays attention to the sequencing of grammar points and scaffolding in Chinese language instruction.
• Janet Zhiqun Xing: Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language: A Pedagogical Grammar. Hong Kong University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-962-209-763-6. This is another book that claims to provide "a research-based account of how to teach and learn Chinese as a foreign language".
• 杨玉玲: 国际汉语教师语法教学手册 (Handbook on Grammar Teaching for International Chinese Teachers). 高等教育出版社/Higher Education Press, 2012. ISBN 978-7-04-031682-7.
• Everson, Michael E.; Xiao, Yun： Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: Theories and Applications. Cheng & Tsui, 2008.
• Waltz, Terry: TPRS with Chinese Characteristics: Making Students Fluent and Literate Through Comprehensible Input. Squid for Brains, 2015. ISBN 978-0692442906. TPRS stands for Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling.
• 周健： 汉语课堂教学技巧与游戏 (Skills and Games for Chinese Classroom Instruction). Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 1998. ISBN 9787561926354.
• Yang, Wenhui: 劲松教汉语： 汉语课堂教学实用技巧72法. (Easy to Teach Chinese: 72 Practical Skills in Classroom Teaching of Chinese). World Publishing Company, 2009.
• Zhang Baolin: 汉语教学参考语法. Peking University Press, 2007.